Vertical’s first American novelist, Michael Dana Kennedy, continues to grace high-profile stages with a hometown appearance courtesy of the Japan Society of Boston set for Monday evening (Nov. 8). If you wish to register for the event, which is free and open to the public, please RSVP through the society’s website.
Lisa Mullins, anchor of PRI’s The World, the celebrated radio program based out of the city, will also be taping an interview with the author this week for broadcast. Click here to see what The Boston Globe has to report about the author.
Earlier this year, Kennedy spoke by invitation at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and the National Museum of the Pacific War (a.k.a. the Nimitz Museum) in Fredericksburg, TX. The Flowers of Edo, his debut novel, chronicles a Japanese-American lieutenant’s desperate espionage mission to his ancestral homeland in the final days of World War II.
In the words of James Fallows, regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, the novel is “a gripping combination of military action and cultural analysis, which offers a unique and provocative perspective on the history that was—and might have been—between Japan and the United States. This is a valuable addition to the literature of understanding how the two nations faced their opposite prospects at the end of a brutal war.”
Don’t miss this appearance by a dynamic speaker and inspired writer.
November 8, 2010 (Monday) 7 pm – 8 pm
Location:
Showa Women’s University
420 Pond Street
Boston, MA 02130
Directions: http://www.us-japan.org/boston/Directions
Phone: (617) 451-0726
