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About moonbridgebooks

Co-author of Cherry Blossoms in Twilight, a WWII Japan memoir of her mother's childhood; author of Poems That Come to Mind, for caregivers of dementia patients; Co-author/Editor of Battlefield Doc, a medic's memoir of combat duty during the Korean War; life writing enthusiast; loves history and culture, poetry, and cats

Memoirs of Wars in Africa

Posted on October 4, 2008 by moonbridgebooks

There are several fairly recent books out that detail the various civil wars in Africa – ugly wars that result in the purposeful killing of thousands of innocents. Sierra Leone, Darfur, Liberia, how we so easily can forget hideous terrors … Continue reading →

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Multicultural Books, Part II

Posted on September 26, 2008 by moonbridgebooks

I love books about half-American half-some-other-culture people because I am one of them. My Japanese mother still causes me consternation and I have been left with strange words and phrases known only to our family, such as “musical bridges” to … Continue reading →

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Multicultural Books, Part I

Posted on September 18, 2008 by moonbridgebooks

“It is not the job of the news media to report on the typical, to give insight into a different culture. It is up to the storytellers and jesters, the memoir writers, the ordinary mothers and daughters” and fathers and … Continue reading →

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