A Large Group of People Becomes a Single "Character"

This book deals with the practice of Japanese workers in the US in the period before WW2, "buying" brides from Japan. It follows their stories. I did not find this book particularly engaging even though it was occasionally poignant and very likely historically accurate. I do take my hat off to the author. Trying to turn a group of people into a single "character" is no easy task. Up to a point, she succeeded - at least enough for me to read and finish the book. Technically, it's a masterpiece, affectively, it occasionally tugs at the heartstrings, and historically it covers events that few people know about. I'm not sorry I read it, but I'd class it as being hard work for the reader.