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Dreaming Water Paperback – May 1, 2003

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Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lifelong friends.

Hana is suffering from Werner's syndrome, a disease that makes a person age at twice the rate of a healthy individual: at thirty-eight Hana has the appearance of an eighty-year-old. Cate, her mother, is caring for her while struggling with her grief at losing her husband, Max, and with the knowledge that Hana's disease is getting worse by the day.

Hana and Cate's days are quiet and ordered. Cate escapes to her beloved garden and Hana reads and writes letters. Each find themselves drawn into their pasts, remembering the joyous and challenging events that have shaped them: spending the day at Max's favorite beach, overcoming their neighbors' prejudices that Max is Japanese-American and Cate is Italian-American, and coping with the heartbreak of discovering Hana's disease.

One of the great joys of Hana's life has been her relationship with her beautiful, successful best friend Laura. Laura has moved to New York from their hometown in California and has two daughters, Josephine and Camille. She has not been home in years and begs Hana to let her bring her daughters to meet her, feeling that Josephine, in particular, needs to have Hana in her life. Despite Hana's latest refusal, Laura decides to come anyway. When Laura's loud, energetic, and troubled world collides with Hana and Cate's daily routine, the story really begins.

Dreaming Water is about a mother's courage, a daughter's strength, and a friend's love. It is about the importance of human dignity and the importance of all the small moments that create a life worth living.

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“A poignant portrait of mother-daughter love in the face of death, without the attendant melodrama easily wrung from such material.” ―Kirkus Reviews

“Beautifully written, effused with both sadness and hope, Tsukiyama's novel cannot fail to move readers.” ―Booklist starred review

“...Tsukiyama tells a simple story in a straightforward way...[in] a delicate, deceptively powerful new novel.” ―USA Today

About the Author

Born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in San Francisco, Gail Tsukiyama now lives in El Cerrito, California. Her novels include Dreaming Water, The Language of Threads, The Samurai's Garden, and Night of Many Dreams.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition (May 1, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312316089
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312316082
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #773,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,096 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #9,096 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
- #9,155 in Family Life Fiction (Books)

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Gail Tsukiyama is the bestselling author of ?ve previous novels, including Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden, as well as the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. She divides her time between El Cerrito and Napa Valley, California.

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Susan S.

Perfect.

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2022

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First edition, author signed book. Perfect condition, great packaging, received when promised.

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019

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This wonderful, poignant story was extremely skillfully told. I cried at the beginning, but,oddly, not once I got through the first chapter. I seemed to absorb Hana's strength. Also, I cried for Max's death more than about Hana's illness, perhaps because it hit me more personally. When I finished the book, I at first felt that I didn't like the way it ended. But after thinking about it more, I realized it ended just as it should have for the greatest impact.

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Pat S

A beautiful, gentle book wrapped around a horrendous medical condition

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019

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I chose this book simply because I've read other of the author's books. She did not fail to captivate me again. The strength of the living AND deceased characters in the book kept me mesmerized and learning about Werner's was an added gift. This is a great story I think can be shared with anyone struggling with a crippling disease or with the worth of friendships.

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Linda M Olsson

Impossible to stop reading

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020

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A beautiful written story that captures your attention right from the start. I think this is the first time EVER reading a book that made me cry, multiple times, because it’s so captivating and you really become alive with the characters.

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Donald Buckley

another good read from Tsukiyama

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014

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This is another very good read by this author. She seems to deal with damaged people in a setting which does not force the reader feel terribly sad or depressed. A young girl stricken with a rare decease is treated as a real person and one feels compassion for the characters surrounding her as well as a sadness for her. Yet there is also a spirit about this brief tale that brings about a quiet feeling of satisfaction.
A difficult , tragic, situation told in loving fashion.

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Suzanne Wiggin

Another must read

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2016

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I have most of Gail Tsukiyama's books and I've shared many of them. They are keepers. Even though the subject of this book is unusual and would be difficult to deal with the way she tells the story is just heartwarming and a joy to read.

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Nancy S.

Wonderful touching story

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2013

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This novel was somewhat of a departure from previous novels by Ms. Tsukiyama, as it takes place in Northern California instead of her usual Japanese and Chinese locales. I have enjoyed all her novels to date, and found this one particularly moving. Cate's marriage to Max and the relationship between Cate and her daughter Hana and the life they share is inspiring, heartwarming and painful by turns.
As has been true for me with each of her novels, I am sorry when the book is finished; I don't want to leave the characters, but I do carry their stories with me.

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Book Lover Carol

This is a "yes" for me - different per my usual books.

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015

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An extremely sad story, but at the same time, extremely hopeful and uplifting. Tsukiyama's writing style was very easy to read and follow. I enjoyed every minute of this book, and as is my nature, I fervently hoped that the main character would find a happy ending. I will not say if she did or did not, in case you plan to read this book! However, I will definitely read another Tsukiyama book.

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Linda Pfeiffer

A very different offering by the author

Reviewed in Canada on July 11, 2021

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I am a huge Gail Tsukiyama fan and have read at least six of her books. I love the ones that take place in Asia and feature Asians as the main characters of her storyline. That part of the world fascinates me and learning about another culture, whether it be Korean, Japanese or Chinese or any other from the far East, is why I read her books. But this time she has made me a believer when she started with a twist in this novel. The main character Cate is an American of Italian descent and her history is that she marries an American of Japanese descent named Max who along with his parents were held in the internment camps during World War II in their own country. But again this is not the whole story.
Cate and Max are finally blessed with a daughter they named Hana and the love among the three of them is strong and true and unbreakable. But Hana has been diagnosed with Werner's syndrome which is a caused by a gene that produces an abnormal enzyme which destroys good cells and causes her to age prematurely, two to three times faster than normal.
This book has nothing to do with Asia, rather it is about a family that endures a cruel reality where love never waivers and though the reader has to know the ending at the beginning you will still want to read this to experience the emotions it brings to the page. Thank you for another fine novel, Gail Tsukiyama.

Judy Adams

Dreaming Water

Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2023

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Loved it!

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Read it in this new age of discrimination!

Reviewed in Japan on March 15, 2006

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This Tsukiyama's new novel moved me deeply as her previous works. Hana is a Japanese-American woman, whose disease stopped her growing in her teens and caused rapid aging. Racial discrimination (her father had been interned in a camp in the WWII) and the disease prohibited her from enjoying youth and life. After her father died, she has been only living with her Italian-American mother, Cate. The story deals with their only two days and their recollections, but on the first day's night, Hana's friend, Laura came to see them with her daughters who were Hana's godchildren. Especially the elder child Josephine got nervous since her parents' separation, so Laura wanted her children to meet her best friend, Hana, and of course she wanted to meet Hana for herself.

The storytelling is perfect. So are the details. For example, on the first encounter, Josephine simply said to herself that small Hana reminded her of "a character in a George Lucas or Steven Spielberg movie." And then things began to change...

Thank you, Gail, for your heartwarming story, especially in this new age of discrimination. I want to read more about Josephine's changing.

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R.Staddon-Smith

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2014

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It was great but I still think the Samurai's garden the most tender and enjoyable

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