The Ichi Bei Weekly, a Japanese-American community-focused publication based in San Francisco, recently reviewed Shun Medoruma's In the Woods of Memory, calling it "a tapestry of trauma in Okinawa" that "offers an in-depth look at the residual of war."
Here's a taste of the review:
"The brilliance of the novel is in how Medoruma weaves together a tapestry of individual points of view to illuminate how trauma and war memories impacts so many individuals and the residual effect that can be carried into the next generation."
Click here to read the full book review: http://ow.ly/nvOS30hPasm