cover image The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

Elisabeth Bumiller. Vintage Books USA, $14.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-679-77262-0

An examination of contemporary Japanese society as seen through a year in the life of a middle-class woman. (Nov.)