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SUMMARY:Author Luncheon Featuring Ana Johns
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of Lake Forest Book Store for a luncheon welcoming debut author Ana Johns at Froggy's French Cafe.\n\nTHE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO\n\nPark Row Publishers  $27.00  Releases May 28\, 2019\n\nWednesday\, June 12\, 2019 at 11:30 AM\n\nat Froggy's French Cafe\n\n306 Green Bay Road\n\nHighwood\, IL 60040\n\n$60 includes lunch and book\n\nSeating is limited. Reservations required. Call 847-234-4420\n\nOceans and decades apart\, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.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.America\, present day. Tori Kovac\, caring for her dying father\, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation--one that calls into question everything she understood about him\, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter\, Tori's journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan\, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history\, 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.\n\n\n\nAna Johns worked over twenty years in the creative arts field\, as both a creative director and business owner\, before turning her hand to fiction. Born and raised in metro Detroit\, she now resides in Indianapolis with her family. The Woman in the White Kimono is her first novel.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Join the staff of Lake Forest Book Store for a luncheon&nbsp\;welcoming debut author Ana Johns at Froggy&#39\;s French Cafe.</strong></p>\n\n<div><strong>THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO</strong></div>\n\n<p><strong>Park Row Publishers&nbsp\; $27.00&nbsp\; Releases May 28\, 2019</strong></p>\n\n<div><strong>Wednesday\, June 12\, 2019 at 11:30 AM</strong></div>\n\n<div><strong>at Froggy&#39\;s French Cafe</strong></div>\n\n<div><strong>306 Green Bay Road</strong></div>\n\n<p><strong>Highwood\, IL 60040</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>$60 includes lunch and book</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Seating is limited. Reservations required.&nbsp\;Call 847-234-4420</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Oceans and decades apart\, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan\, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura&#39\;s prearranged marriage to the son of her father&#39\;s business associate would secure her family&#39\;s status in their traditional Japanese community\, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor\, a&nbsp\;<em>gaijin</em>--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it&#39\;s learned Naoko carries the sailor&#39\;s child\, she&#39\;s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.America\, present day. Tori Kovac\, caring for her dying father\, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation--one that calls into question everything she understood about him\, her family and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter\, Tori&#39\;s journey leads her halfway around the world to a remote seaside village in Japan\, where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption.In breathtaking prose and inspired by true stories from a devastating and little-known era in Japanese and American history\,&nbsp\;<em>The Woman in the White Kimono</em>&nbsp\;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.</strong></p>\n\n<p><br />\nAna Johns&nbsp\;worked over twenty years in the creative arts field\, as both a creative director and business owner\, before turning her hand to fiction. Born and raised in metro Detroit\, she now resides in Indianapolis with her family. The Woman in the White Kimono is her first novel.</p>\n
LOCATION:Froggy's French Cafe 306 Green Bay Road Highwood
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