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“A GEM, POLISHED AND FACETED IN A WAY THAT PULLED ME INTO THE HEART OF IT WITH THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. . . . Important, touching, meaningful, and uplifting.”
–JEANNE RAY
Chicago Tribune
After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come “home” to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to spend the summer with her bizarre yet comforting clan. Ruled by a strict, regimented Air Force Major father, but grounded in their mother’s particular brand of humor, Bernie’s family was destined for military greatness during the glory days of the mid-’50s. But in Base life, where an unkempt lawn is cause for reassignment, one fateful misstep changed the Roots’ world forever. Yet the family’s silence cannot keep the wounds of the past from reemerging . . . nor can the memory fade of beloved Fumiko, the family’s former maid, whose name is now verboten. And the secrets long ago covered up in classic military style–through elimination and denial–are now forcing their way to the surface for a return engagement.
- Sales Rank: #640312 in Books
- Brand: Bird, Sarah
- Published on: 2002-10-29
- Released on: 2002-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x .84" w x 5.54" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 367 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Stories nestle inside stories like a set of Russian dolls in Bird's (Virgin of the Rodeo) wonderful fifth novel. Set in the late 1960s, it is narrated by 18-year-old Bernie, the eldest of six children in the peripatetic Root family. After her freshman year in college, Bernie joins her nomadic kin at their current home, an Okinawan air force base. They have changed: her younger sister, Kit, is out of control and "now being played by Lolita"; her once glamorous mother, Moe, is overweight and depressed; her father, who was a heroic and swaggering fighter pilot, has become a distant, self-loathing "ground pounder." And Bernie can't stop thinking of Fumiko, the family's former maidservant, whom no one is allowed to mention. Before being sucked into the family's torpor, Bernie escapes by winning a dance contest that lands her in Tokyo as the stage partner of Bobby Moses, a third-rate borscht belt comedian. There she delves into the past to solve the mystery surrounding Fumiko's disappearance and her family's deterioration. Bernie sharp and snarky, yet severely introverted is a delightful heroine, and the large cast that swirls around her is equally endearing. Particularly fine are the wisecracking yet nurturing Moe and the oddly touching Bobby Moses, who's vulgar and mediocre, but insistent on professionalism. The dialogue is first-rate, and all the '60s brand-name dropping is amusing; the decade becomes fresh again when seen from the unusual perspective of a military family (especially this one) removed from mainland society. (June) Forecast: Bird has David Sedaris's gift for mining scathing wit from family dysfunction. Only one of her earlier novels is still in print, but hopefully her move to Knopf (and a slew of enthusiastic blurbs from the likes of Rick Bass) will help her to win the large readership she deserves.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Bird has created a deftly choreographed journey of the heart, delicate and nuanced in its disclosure of painful family secrets, yet liberally seasoned with robust humor. Readers travel with 18-year-old Bernie Root as she returns from her freshman year of college in the States to visit her military family, currently stationed on Okinawa. The "fresh eyes" with which she views her parents and five younger siblings will resonate with many teens. Beyond this, the complex range of emotions generated by her reentry into life on a military base, with all its familiar, yet insular and confining, characteristics is poignantly captured. Bernie's distress at her parents' deteriorating marriage and her continuing thorny relationship with her beautiful younger sister provide a sober backdrop that is nevertheless leavened by vignettes and hilarious reminiscences of life on the move and the pitfalls of always being the new kid in town. At the core of the story is the protagonist's attempt to unveil the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a beloved servant who lived with the family 10 years prior when they were stationed in Japan, while the father was assigned to a squadron flying surveillance missions shrouded in secrecy. Bernie intuitively senses that discovering Fumiko's fate is key to understanding the forces that are destabilizing her family. The revelations that ensue lead her along a path of self-discovery to a heartrending confrontation with the harsh consequences of one's actions, and to a new level of maturity. A beautifully paced story, especially recommended for (but not limited to) any locale with a military base nearby.
Lynn Nutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Bernie (Bernadette), age 18, flies to Okinawa after a year at college to visit her parents and five younger siblings. It's 1968, and she is as stunned by the changes in her close-knit air force family as they are by her newly acquired radical antiwar convictions. With her parents' marriage in ruins, Bernie begins to unravel the eight-year old mystery that tangled them all in a disastrous web of betrayal and calamity, derailing her father's flying career and wrecking the family's close friendship with their former maid Fumiko. In a scene of exquisitely rendered detail, Bernie wins a dance contest and returns to the Japan of her childhood to track down the truth of what happened. Bird, author of such hits as The Mommy Club, nails the voice of Bernie in a delicate balance of confused, shy child vs. the bright emerging woman she has become. Bird's masterly use of the tricky technique of children revealing adult subtleties is breathtaking. An even trickier technique, smoothly moving from the scene-setting, literally translated "bar-girl" English of Fumiko to the proper English Bernie "hears," puts the reader right in the middle of all the heartache. Expect demand for Bird's previous works once patrons finish this one. Highly recommended. Beth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Yokota Officers Club
By Glenn Greenwood
As a military brat who grew up on a number of air force bases all over the United States and abroad I found this book to be a non-stop, cover to cover read.
Although I knew this book was a fictional work, the characters became absolutely real to me. The brothers and sisters in this book were my brothers and sisters and my friends in the military base Capehart housing down the street. One of the book's locales, Kadena AFB on Okinawa, "the rock" was much the same as one of the bases I grew up on, Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, "the rock" on the other side of the world. The pilot father as a maniac behind the wheel, racing a large family packed into a car almost non-stop to his next duty station was my B-52 crewman father doing the same thing with my family.
The forever concerns I had while growing up of getting into trouble and ruining my father's career, walked up behind me and once again breathed heavily down my neck as I read this book.
More importantly, I was reminded of friends who were removed from military bases and my life the very day after their fathers didn't come back from "training and weather missions." At age 46 this book finally brought home to me the fact that I was not allowed, as a friend, to share their grief and offer support over the loss of their fathers. A tragedy for all concerned, but shared and shouldered by very few.
Sarah Bird's first person fictional narrative of the personal one on one relationship between the the main character, Bernie, and the family maid Fumiko and the family secrets surrounding her; speaks volumes on the impact we, in a smaller sense as military children growing up overseas and we, in a larger sense as a country, had on people in the countries occupied by America's military after World War II.
It has been a long, dry, almost desolate 25 years since the last fictional book about growing up in a military family, Pat Conroy's "Great Santini" was released by a major publisher. With Knopf's publication of "The Yokota Officers Club," we are finally, given, not not only a glass of cool water to drink from, to quench our thirst with; but we are also given the spring the water flows from.
If you pride yourself on being a military brat...don't miss this book. You'll find a bit of all of us within this book, our triumphs, failings, and also our humanity as military brats....
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Memories of an USAF Brat
By Jan Service
Having lived at Yokota AFB from 1957-59 seeing this book really took me by surprise so I ran out and read it immediately. I couldn't put it down. It is hard to find a book that reminds us brats of our childhood, but reading "Yokota" did it for me! It brought back so many fond memories of Japan, the Teen Club, the Father and Daughter Brownie Banquet and especially of our maid Iseko. This book left me in a very reflective mood. I wish my Dad were still around to talk to him adult to adult about our military life. All those long forgotten memories and feelings... thanks to Sarah Bird for bringing them to the surface again. Thanks too for trying to explain the complex chemistry of the military life, its people, and burdens that the government expects from all of them. I'm proud to be an American, I'm proud to be an USAF brat and I'm glad I read The Yokota Officers Club.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
A smart and funny novel.
By Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
Just when you think you've had enough of novels about disintegrating families, there comes a book as appealing as "The Yokota Officers' Club." Author Sarah Bird whisks you away to the military world of Okinawa in 1968, where Peter, Paul & Mary's "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" passes for real rock 'n roll; where military families fear breaking an unspoken code of behavior and being RIFed, and where Vietnam is still a flicker in the background.
After her first year of college, Bernie Root comes home to Okinawa, the place her family happens to be that summer. Her dad's in the Air Force, and they move around a lot. But things have changed shockingly in her year away from the family. Her parents' marriage has turned ugly, and her off-beat tribe of brothers and sisters are almost too quirky to fit in anywhere. Being back in Asia reminds Bernie of the four happy years in Tokyo, a time made special by the family's closeness and the presence of their Japanese maid Fumiko, whom Bernie and her mother loved very much. Fumiko's name is never spoken now, and Bernie wonders why.
She gets the chance to find out when she wins a dance contest to tour air bases in Japan with Far East Funnyman Bobby Moses, a comic whose creaking act provides pained yucks for entertainment-starved officers clubs. His sidekick doesn't add much. Not with Bernie squeezed into tiny go-go boots halfheartedly jiving to whatever piece of cornball music a local band can come up with. She soldiers on for the chance to find Fumiko.
Her discovery is surprising and disconcerting, and even more so is the role Bernie finds she played in it. Sarah Bird's portrait of Americans in 1950s and 60s Japan makes for excellent reading. Intelligent and funny, "The Yokota Officers' Club" will not disappoint readers who set high standards for their summer reading.
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