Full name: Country of Origin: A Novel

Author: Don Lee Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393327069 039332706X

Lisa Countryman is a woman of complex origins. Half-Japanese, adopted by African American parents, she returns to Tokyo, ostensibly to research her thesis on Japan's "sad, brutal reign of conformity." When she vanishes, Tom Hurley, who is half-Korean and half-white, is assigned to her case at the American embassy, as is local cop Kenzo Ota, who is 100 percent Japanese but deemed an outsider.