I just finished a wonderful new novel that I want to recommend.
Greensboro, NC resident Angela Davis-Gardner has just published her third novel, Plum Wine. A beautiful story of a young American woman, Barbara Jefferson, teaching in Tokyo in the late 1960's. Barbara inherits a chest full of bottles of plum wine from her Japanese mentor. Around each bottle of wine are pages of writing - all in Japanese calligraphy, which Barbara can't read. With the help of a local potter, Seiji, Barbara gets all the papers translated.
I had to keep reading to find how each paper was translated. They covered the years from 1930-1965 with only one gap from 1943-1948. Each translation was rich with Japanese culture and history.
If you like to read novels with a little mystery to them or set in a foreign country, then give Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner a try.
Please leave a comment and let me know if you liked the book or not.
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