In this heartfelt memoir, Dana Sachs takes the reader on a sensual and textured voyage to a country most Americans think about only in terms of war. A finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award, this deftly written narrative reveals how Sachs settled in with slick, warmhearted Tung and his...
At forty-two, Shelley Marino desperately wants a child. Though she and her older husband, Martin, have tried during the course of their marriage, their only hope now is adoption. Martin, who has seen his share of heartbreak, can't reconcile what Shelley wants with what he knows about the world, a...
People of Japanese descent, most of whom were U.S. citizens, were told to pack up their things and report to receiving centers, from which they would later be relocated to more permanent quarters in internment camps. The Nakamura family congregated on the morning of February twenty-fourth on Post...
Firecrackers on Dream StreetTHE MATERNITY HOSPITAL WHERE HUONG had delivered her baby had been rudimentary and rather run-down, but it came to seem positively high-tech in comparison to the pediatric hospital where I visited the baby the next morning. Tung brought me with him on his motorbike, wh...