Dear Diary Boy: An Exacting Mother, Her Free-Spirited Son...
Makihara, Kumiko / Fallows, Deborah
A heart-wrenching, revelatory and shocking memoir that opens a fascinating window into the world of traditional Japanese education." -Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political TribesAn intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's struggle to fit in at a prestigious private elementary school in Japan. When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan'...