Country of Origin (Revised)

Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider.

Author: Don Lee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.58w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780393327069

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/10/2005 pg. 32

About the Author
Lee, Don: - Don Lee is the author of the novels The Collective, Wrack and Ruin, and Country of Origin, and the story collection Yellow. He has received an American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Temple University and splits his time between Philadelphia and Baltimore.