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Dassai 45 Junmai Daiginjo
Wine♡ Yamaguchi, Japan · Yamada Nishiki rice (sake)
Delicate, clean and quietly precise, an honest nod to the women's origins. Its restrained elegance suits the book's spare, rhythmic prose.
The Pour
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Ridge Lytton Springs
Wine🇺🇸 Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma, California · Zinfandel blend
Sun-baked California fruit with a savory, earthy core. It speaks of the fields where the women's hopes turned to hard labor.
The Mood
Told in a collective first-person voice, the novel follows Japanese picture brides arriving in California in the early 1900s. Lyrical, incantatory and quietly devastating.
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