01809cam a2200313 i 4500 1164477437 TxAuBib 20160226120000.0 150223s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015006931 9780143128250 0143128256 (OCoLC)904012101 DLC eng rda DLC BDX OCLCF BTCTA YDXCP BKL OCLCO LEB GO6 TxAuBib rda Copleton, Jackie. A dictionary of mutual understanding : a novel / Jackie Copleton. New York City : Penguin Books, 2015. 292 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2015. When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson, she doesn't believe him. Her grandson and her daughter, Yuko, perished nearly forty years ago during the bombing of Nagasaki. But the man carries with him a collection of sealed private letters that open a Pandora's Box of family secrets Ama had sworn to leave behind when she fled Japan. She is forced to confront her memories of the years before the war: of the daughter she tried too hard to protect and the love affair that would drive them apart, and even further back, to the long, sake-pouring nights at a hostess bar where Ama first learned that a soft heart was a dangerous thing. Will Ama allow herself to believe in a miracle? 20160226. Families Japan Fiction. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Fiction. Historical fiction. TXKIP