{"product_id":"morning-sun-laird-koenig-9781935212904","title":"Morning Sun: The Story of Madam Butterfly's Boy","description":"MORNING SUN LIGHTS UP THE TWO DIFFERENT AND FASCINATING WORLDS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN BEFORE PEARL HARBOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bestselling author's wonderfully moving adventure-love story takes us to Japan in 1913. When his US Navy officer father dies, teenage Sam Pinkerton discovers he's the son of a Japanese mother, and follows his heart to find her. Too late. Madam Butterfly ended her life with a samurai blade. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether American or Japanese, he's an outcast desperately alone in the strange and dangerous lower depths of Nagasaki, struggling to stay alive. A wily criminal Japanese kid helps him avoid the law and endure to young manhood and sex in varieties gaijins know little of. A breathtaking fantasy with a geisha\u003cbr\u003eends when corrupt and powerful Kodo traps the American-looking Sam into marrying his club-footed daughter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam feels no love, yet respects Mayumi, who bears the children he adores. Her\u003cbr\u003efather sends him to the States, posing as an American in a lumber deal illegal for a Japanese. Accepted among the Jazz-Age youth, he falls in love with blonde Nicola. One slip, however, will reveal his identity and mean prison for Sam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow truly between two worlds -- Nagasaki and Mayumi waiting with his children, or America and his deep love for Nicola. Desert Mayumi the way his father betrayed Butterfly? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere does young Sam belong in the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laird Koenig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935212907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935212904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prospecta Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laird Koenig","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48930120597759,"sku":"9781935212904","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/morning-sun-laird-koenig-9781935212904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}