Kyoko Mori is one of my favorite prose stylists and this book of delicate, perceptive essays represents Mori at her best. Polite Lies is full of delights and revelations.
- Robert Olen Butler, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for A good Scent from a Strange Mountain -

Reading Kyoko Mori's Polite Lies, one makes a luminous journey into a woman's thoughts, hopes, memories, and experiences. Along her unpredictable paths, we see with her eyes, we hear with her ears, and we feel with her heart. It is a lovely and memorable trip.

- Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, Author of the best-selling The Sweeter the Juice -