Angela Davis-Gardner

In Davis-Gardner's Plum Wine, love and secrets unfold amidst rice-paper scrolls, raku bowls, and the tenacious legacy of war in 1960s Japan.

A Novel

Plum Wine

Angela Davis Gardner

Inheriting a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped in sheets of calligraphy-covered paper following the death of her friend and colleague Michiko, Barbara Jefferson, an American teaching at a Tokyo university, hires an enigmatic translater named Seiji to unravel the mysteries of Michiko's life and the hidden world of the hibakusha, Horishima survivors. Reprint. 42,500 first printing.

Judy Hudgins

North Carolina author with a NC character.....young American girl in mid-60's teaching English at a small Japanese university is bequeathed an unusal gift. Really, really great read.

Plum Wine A Novel

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