Do-good American family tries to adopt a Japanese girl from the fishing village of their Japanese house cook. Adoption fails so son marries girl to bring her back to America.
Do-good American family tries to adopt a Japanese girl from the fishing village of their Japanese house cook. Adoption fails so son marries girl to bring her back to America.
Sounds like Young Thinker's 'My Small Delicate Flower', which he removed from SOL with all of his other stories.
It's definitely My Small Delicate Flower. I just looked over the first few pages and confirmed the details: Japanese cook from fishing village, parents into causes, 14-year-old male narrator.
Not sure where you can find it now, but it was released 2010-07-29 and is ~13200 words (36k in epub). Hopefully that will help a search.