Tea with Milk

“A young lady needs a husband from a good family.” “A husband! I’d rather have a turtle than a husband!”
May’s parents speak Japanese at home and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. But May eats things like pancakes and fried chicken when she goes to her friends’ houses, and she plans to go to college and someday have her own apartment. When May’s family moves back to Japan, she soon feels lost and homesick. In Japan everyone calls her by her Japanese name, Masako, and she has to wear kimonos and sit on the floor. May feels that she will never feel at home in this country.
May is expected to marry eventually, and a matchmaker is hired. Feeling helpless and discouraged, May sets out to find her own way in the big city of Osaka.