Girl in a BoxA Novel\nAuthor(s): Jean Gordon Kocienda\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Sibylline Press, United States\nImprint: Sibylline Press\nISBN-13: 9798897400126, 979-8897400126\nSynopsis\nIn early twentieth century Japan, women have few rights. Yet one precocious poeta brooding daughter, locked in her room at night by protective parentsruns away from home to live a life of her choosing.\n\nShe falls in love with a fellow poet and follows him across Siberia to Paris, where they witness the last days of the Belle Epoque. She perseveres through poverty, back-to-back pregnancies, infidelity, earthquake and fire, to become a name every Japanese schoolchild knows today as a pioneering feminist poet and the first person to translate the classical Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. In her single-minded dedication to her art, she inflicts wounds on a daughter that echo from her own childhood. She sets out to make amends, knowing it may be too late.\n\nBased on the life of poet Yosano Ak.