cover image Sushi and Sourdough

Sushi and Sourdough

Tooru J. Kanazawa. University of Washington Press, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-295-97083-7

Tora, a Japanese barber's son and first-generation American, experiences frontier hardships, family solidarity and racial prejudice as he grows up in Washington State and Alaska during the early part of this century. According to PW , this semi-autobiographical account is ``uneven . . . . As a whole, it sags as fiction and soars as popular history.'' (Oct.)