Inheritance from Mother made in USA of every hour

of every hour

Drawing from more than 250 interviews

while in Greek mythology she is called Athena

Former head of the Library's Hebraic Section in the African and Middle Eastern Division

Inheritance from Mother made in USA of every hourMitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid fifties, is a French language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman. In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing eighty something mother, a demanding, self absorbed woman who is far from the image of the patient, self sacrificing Japanese