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Pond Beyond the Forest

By Shigeko Ito

Pond Beyond the Forest

By Shigeko Ito

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For fans of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know, a memoir of a middle-aged Japanese immigrant mother's struggle to raise her teenage son and save her marriage when she finds herself triggered by memories of her own childhood trauma as he enters adolescence. At age twenty-two, Shigeko Ito immigrated to America to escape Japan's rigid society and a neglectful childhood home that landed her in a mental hospital at seventeen. She thrived in her new, healthier environment and thought her traumatic past was all behind her. Until it wasn't. Motherhood, she realized, was far more challenging than she could have ever imagined. But it was her son's high school years that proved to be particularly daunting, and that was when her past reemerged--in the form of intense flashbacks to her childhood trauma and tumultuous teenage years. With the stream of daily stresses compounded by menopausal irritability, Shigeko often found herself regressing into a bunker-like mentality with childish coping mechanisms, a pattern that threatened to undo her most prized achievement: her happy family. In The Pond Beyond the Forest, Shigeko faces her past head-on, taking the reader along on her quest to uncover the root causes of her lifelong struggles--a journey that leads to deeper self-awareness, understanding, and acceptance, and ultimately saves her family and marriage.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2025-10-07
Publication Date:
2025-10-07
Publisher:
She Writes Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1647429803
ISBN13:
9781647429805
Weight:
355 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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