The Friends of the Green Free Library in association with The Green Free Library, will be hosting a guest author on Thursday May 14, 2009, at 7:00 PM, in the Gmeiner Art & Cultural Center (behind the library).
Yoko Kawashima Watkins was born in Japan in 1933. Her father was a Japanese government official and the family lived in Manchuria when she was born. Manchuria had been under Japanese control since 1931. The family later moved to Nanam in northern Korea. This area was also under Japanese control and had been since 1910.
In 1945, when it became clear that Japan was losing WWII, Yoko, along with her mother and her sister, were forced to flee Korea. Her writings share the fear and dangers involved in this perilous flight to freedom.
Titles by this author include:
So Far From the Bamboo Grove (GFL has)
My Brother, My Sister, and I (GFL has)
Tales From The Bamboo Grove
This program is free and open to the public. Registration is not necessary. We hope to see you there. If you would like to read some of the authors work, copies of two of her titles are available for check out at The Green Free Library, in the Robinson Room.
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