The Woman in the White Kimono: (A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick)

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Book Review: Death By Theft (A Josiah Reynolds Mystery 19) by Abigail Keam @AbigailKeam October 27, 2023 Inspired by true stories, The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart, and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home.

Me encantó! Fue sencillamente espectacular. “Dos mujeres separadas por océanos y décadas a las que unirá la verdad”, es la mejor manera de definirlo. Buy this book from hive.co.uk to support The Reading Agency and local bookshops at no additional cost to you. There’s a side by side story running parallel too which comes together in one huge emotional BANG I wouldn’t have guessed it if I tried in a month of Sunday’s.relate to today’s society in America? Are there ways in which cultural norms about race and gender impact our lives today? Con cada paso que daba me acercaba un poco más a mi futuro y me alejaba un poco más de mi familia. Era un contraste de extremos en todos los sentidos, pero de alguna manera yo había encontrado mi lugar entre ellos. Buda lo llamaba el camino del medio. El equilibrio correcto de la vida. Yo lo llamaba felicidad.” Book Review: One Hundred Merry Memories (An Aspen Cove Romance # 24) by Kelly Collins October 25, 2023

En definitiva, “La mujer del kimono blanco” es una historia de amores imposibles y desgracias humanas cuyas heridas se conservan a lo largo del tiempo.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man - an American sailor, a gaijin - and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. Title: The Woman in the White Kimono Author: Ana Johns Genre: Historical fiction Date of publication: May 28th 2019 Publisher: Legend Press Format: ebook (Kindle) (bought) My rating: 5/5 🌟 About the book: The ground beneath my feet shifts, causing outward tremors in all directions. We stand on a cultural fault line, the fracture running miles deep, and the potential aftermath catastrophic. My intent may displace sides, but this baby connects us all like a bridge...”

Book Review: Meet Your Matcha (Common Threads #7) by Nanxi Wen @nanxiwenauthor @smartypantsromance October 16, 2023 The Woman in the White Kimono is predominantly set in Japan during the late 1950s, as well as present day, and is told from two different perspectives; Tori, a young journalist who journeys to Japan after her father's death to unravel the secrets of his past and to find the family he may have left behind, and Naoko, a young Japanese girl whose forbidden love for an American soldier will change her life forever.DiscussTori’s situation. What do you think drove Tori to such extremes to learn about her father's first family? What would you do if faced with a similar family secret? This is a real heartbreaking story. A fiction novel based on the author’s fathers own experience. He fell in love with beautiful Japanese girl while serving in the This novel is going straight in my Favourites list. When I return home to the U.K. I may even have to buy a physical copy for shelf display purposes (and probable future rereads… which doesn’t happen often.). At the end is a section written by the author on the inspiration behind the novel. It’s horrifying to learn that the place Naoko ends up at is based on a real place, and that the events that occur are also based on truth. It’s one thing to read a work of fiction that details these things, but to learn they actually happened? The story itself while having an interesting premise, does not conjure up a complex set of characters nor a convoluted plot line compared to some of the other books I’ve read recently. The story oscillates between present day America, where a investigative journalist discovers that her dying father lived another life before the family she knows all her life and post war Japan where a young girl followed her heart to be with a gaijin.