{"product_id":"i-would-meet-you-anywhere-a-memoir-paperback","title":"I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Kiyo Ito\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same in our own stories.\" -W. Kamau Bell\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother's desire for anonymity against Ito's need to know her origins, to see and be seen. Along the way, Ito grapples with her own reproductive choices, the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, and the true meaning of family. An account of love, what it's like to feel neither here nor there, and one writer's quest for the missing pieces that might make her feel whole, \u003ci\u003eI Would Meet You Anywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is the stirring culmination of Ito's decision to embrace her right to know and tell her own story.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Kiyo Ito is the coeditor of the literary anthology \u003ci\u003eA Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. A MacDowell Fellow, she has also been awarded residencies at the Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Blue Mountain Center. She has performed her solo show, \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Cream Gene, \u003c\/i\u003e around the US and adapted \u003ci\u003eUntold Stories: Life, Love, and Reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e for the theater. She writes and teaches in the Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44413545250918,"sku":"9780814258835","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/1rhoFF7QUB9780814258835.webp?v=1769975443","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/i-would-meet-you-anywhere-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}