Beyond the Shadow of My Pagoda - Tales of the Orient (Paperback)

Throughout my childhood growing up in Michigan, my mother told us stories about her being born and raised in China by her American missionary parents, about those grandparents and their life in the Orient. Later I would live in both Korea and Japan, adding to my fascination with the Far East. Each of these fictional short stories is anchored in Chinese and Japanese history and, in some part, on my firsthand experiences and those of my mother and grandparents. Not a history book, but a glimpse into an earlier period of these two ancient and fascinating cultures through the eyes of each story's protagonists.