{"product_id":"i-would-meet-you-anywhere-a-memoir-9780814258835","title":"I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003ebest memoir of 2023 - Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mad Creek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50586185367826,"sku":"9780814258835","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_427ccb65-d135-4bfc-86a2-f0c52b505f70.jpg?v=1732042503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-would-meet-you-anywhere-a-memoir-9780814258835","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}