NEWS & EVENTS
October 10, 2023 | Eugene, OR | Book Reading
Solvang Independent Living
A dear friend invited me to hold a book reading and signing at her retirement home where some twenty residents and friends gathered to hear my talk about the book, Two Faces.
As background information I described how my two grandparents immigrated to America from Hiroshima, Japan in the early 1900s. They settled in an area near San Jose, California where my mother’s parents and my father’s arranged a marriage between the two in 1931.
My sister Janet was born in May 1932, I was born in January 1938, and my brother Gene was born in December 1939, and this was my family on the eve of December 7, 1941.
From the book I read the Dedication to our two mothers as the stalwart forces holding our families together during those difficult times. I ended my reading by covering the first three chapters that introduced the three main story threads throughout the book, my enduring friendship with Nina, the forced evacuation and internment that happened to my family, and about our two families that held everything together with some semblance of normalcy in animpossible world.
I ended with questions and answers and signed books.