Showing The Beautiful One Has Come: Stories by Suzanne Kamata

"It's clear that Kamata deeply understands the questions her characters grapple with emotionally, as well as the intimate details of day-to-day life in Japan" - ForeWord Reviews

"Kamata provides a refreshing alternative, one that focuses on female protagonists, but which also looks at daily lives, both the mundane and the spectacular." - Asian Review of Books

"The stories...have a universal appeal but will strike a familiar note in particular with those who have spent considerable time outside their comfort zones." - Sharona Moskowitz, JQ Magazine

[Kamata] uses finely honed powers of observation and a mastery of narrative techniques to avoid the pitfalls of pathos which might trap a less talented author." - Pacific Rim Review of Books

"The Beautiful One Has Come poignantly shows the pains and the pleasures of living in a culture that is not your own. Kamata also illuminates the modern struggles of everyday people, showing us that perhaps foreigners are not the only ones searching for belonging in this traditional society." - Margaret Dilloway, Author, How to Be an American Housewife

"With evocative grace, and the authority of real experience, Kamata takes us on a tour through a garden of lives which touch Japan. Each story wanders as delicately as a small stream, with jewel-like descriptions and plot points waiting to be discovered around every corner." - Rebecca Otowa, Author, At Home in Japan: A Foreign Woman's Journey of Discovery