Lydia Minatoya contextualizes the effects of her struggle with her cultural identity in this memoir. She flounders through her twenties, unfulfilled in her career and in herself.

Lydia Minatoya contextualizes the effects of her struggle with her cultural identity in this memoir. Growing up in America in a Japanese household gave Lydia a distorted experience of American culture. feeling that she owes her support as a representative of her family's suffering in the internment camps despite the fear she feels. The remaining journey through her text is her experiences while traveling.

Subtitled "An Asian American Odyssey", I found this book interesting and well-written. LYDIA MINATOYA was born In Albany, New York in 1950. She re¬ceived her PhD in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1981 and is currently a college professor

Subtitled "An Asian American Odyssey", I found this book interesting and well-written. She re¬ceived her PhD in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1981 and is currently a college professor. She has written about her experiences growing up as an Asian American and her travels of self-discovery in Asia in Talking to Monks in High Snow: An Asian-¬American Odyssey (1993). She has also published a novel, The Strangeness of B LYDIA MINATOYA was born In Albany, New York in 1950.

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But Minatoya is an American brought up on ""iconoclastic choice and irrepressible hope,"" uncomfortable with ""being in-between. Here, her spiritual journey begins with memories of growing up in Albany in the 1950's and of the tragic figure of a grandmother she knew only from one photograph. Her mother's mother had been divorced, ""banished"" from her samurai-descended family, and separated permanently from her children-the price of having a love affair. TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW: An Asian-American Odyssey.

Traveling always brings a new dimension to yourself. This is an odyssey of a Sansei(the third generation of Japanese-American) woman, who has been wondering about who she is and where she belongs. Like Amy Tan's "The Opposite of Fate", she wrotes about her background (her immigrant grandparents, Nisei-Kibei parents, sister and herself) and her identity crisis.

Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Release date: 17 February 1993 ISBN-10 : 0060923725 ISBN-13: 9780060923723.

Asian-American Odyssey, An. by Lydia Minatoya. Imprint: Harper Perennial.

Talking to high monks in the snow : an Asian American odyssey . Minatoya, Lydia Y. (Lydia Yuriko), 1950-. The Odyssey /. Author.

TALKING TO HIGH MONKS IN THE SNOW An Asian American Odyssey. Ms. Minatoya, now a counselor at a Seattle community college, describes the journeys she felt compelled to take in the 1980's to reconcile these different aspects of her heritage. By Lydia Yuri Minatoya. Talking to High Monks in the Snow" is a deceptively soft-spoken book that is by turns charming and disturbing. Minatoya affectingly describes her visit to the remote Japanese village where her grandparents grew up - an encounter that dramatizes the cultural incongruities Ms. Minotoya feels exist within her.

While Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey (1992), an earlier work written by Minatoya, also deals with Japanese American transnational travels and movement, it is mostly written in line with.

While Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey (1992), an earlier work written by Minatoya, also deals with Japanese American transnational travels and movement, it is mostly written in line with what Traise Yamamoto recognizes as the going back to Japan trend in Japanese American literature. for more details about the development of going back to Japan as a theme in recent Japanese American literature