Book Review: Yakuza Moon - Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo - Page 2

“I think a lot about the moon," she says. "How it constantly waxes and wanes, just like my life with its highs and lows. I like to think of myself as having been born under a new moon. Then, in those uncertain days when I was searching for love, I guess the moon would have become a crescent. It was probably about a half-moon when I got married."

But, as the author goes one, "Now that I’m alone, do I warrant a full moon? Have I finally overcome my weaknesses and grown up? I’m heading along a new path in life, but if it turns out to be a dead end, I guess I can start over with the next full moon.”

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Ms. Trattner works for a non-profit agency where she is thankful for any internet time she can squeeze into her day. In her free time she reads one of the thousands of books stacked in her tiny apartment.

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  • Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter

    Yakuza Moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-year-old Shoko Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was ...

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  • 1 - Regina Edith

    Sep 04, 2008 at 9:43 am

    I just read this book.
    I was speechless and touched.
    Shoko is really a brave and tough woman.
    She really insipires me.

  • 2 - rika

    Mar 20, 2009 at 9:05 am

    really surprising story
    it inspires me, how to be better girl to face the world

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