Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir "Turning Japanese" chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. "Turning Japanese" chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. "Turning Japanese" was a "New York Times" Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.