Davis - Gardner Angela - Butterfly's Child A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: When three - year - old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and stepmother Kate on their farm in Illinois the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha and instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. When the truth surfaces it will splinter this family's fragile dynamic and send Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco then across the ocean to Nagasaki where he will uncover the truth about his mother's tragic death. Don t miss the exclusive conversation between Angela Davis - Gardner and Jennifer Egan at the back of the book.
Title: Butterfly's Child A Novel
Author(s): Davis - Gardner Angela
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Barcode: 9780385340953
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 4/10/2012
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction