Bussey holds a master's degree in interdisciplinary studies and a bachelor's degree in English literature, and is an independent writer specializing in literature. In the following essay, Bussey examines Sayuri's life as one that never achieves balance until she leaves Japan altogether.
As a child, Sayuri describes her house as a "tipsy house" because it leans badly to one side and is propped up to keep it from falling. It reminds her of an old man who has had too much to drink. She writes,
Probably it would have collapsed if my father hadn't cut a timber from a wrecked fishing boat to prop up the eaves. . . .
Inside this tipsy house I lived something of a lopsided life.
The "tipsy house" of her childhood that represents her origins and the setting.....
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