The Woman in the White Kimono

By: Ana Johns

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Lauren Ezzo

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.

Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s child, she’s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.

America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori’s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.

In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.

great read

I couldn't put it down. beautiful story!! I could visualize while listening and found the story to be very emotional...

Dumb ending

I enjoyed listening to it until the last few chapters
A Japanese accent speaking English doesn’t sound like a Russian would. The accent was way off.
But the worst is the unanswered questions and somehow we’re supposed to find peace with it. Especially the biggest question of what happened

Great story - you be unbeatable reader

Wish I’d had time to read it as a text. The modern Tori voice was an unremitting hysterical whine.,Naoko’s voice was serviceable, and I only stuck it out because the story was so good.

The story was intriguing

Very good book, it started out kind of slow but as we got into the story, I found myself wanting more and more. It took a couple turns that I didn’t see coming but overall, I really enjoyed the book.

Overdramatic narration

Great story …the narration was extremely over dramatic. If the story wasn’t so good I would have stopped listening