"Gasa-Gasa Girl" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hirahara Naomi)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Professor Kendall Brown and Yukiko Yanagida McCarty, for sharing information about Takeo Shiota. Quotes from Takeo Shiota were taken from his essay “The Miniature Japanese Landscape,” written for the Newark Museum Association and available at The New York Public Library. For more information on Japanese Americans in New York, I can recommend two nonfiction works, Mitziko Sawada’s book, Tokyo Life, New York Dreams: Urban Japanese Visions of America, 1890-1924, and Scott T. Miyakawa’s article “Early New York Issei: Founders of Japanese American Trade.” To learn more about the history of Seabrook, see Charles H. Harrison’s Growing a Global Village: Making History at Seabrook Farms.

Regarding the writing of Gasa-Gasa Girl, I am indebted to both my editor, Shannon Jamieson, and my agent, Sonia Pabley, for their perceptive advice in making the story as sharp as possible.

I also acknowledge the help of Anne Winthrop Esposito, Patrick Huguenin, and the agency of Rosenstone/Wender.

For other tangible help, whether it be providing a bed for a weary traveling writer or making refreshments for book parties, I thank my parents, Mayumi and Isamu Hirahara, and their friends; my brother, Jimmy Hirahara, and his friends; my homegirls (you know who you are); Lewis Kawahara and Akiko Takeshita; Paul Kroner and Sharon Ozzolek; and New Life Christian Church. Attorney Mike Yamamoto fielded questions about criminal law. I also give thanks to the Japanese American community in both New York City and New Jersey, whose members were so welcoming during past research trips for other writing projects.

Last of all, but most important, appreciation and love go out to my husband, Wes, who has provided a nurturing environment for me to write in.