Cinematic deeply moving and beautifully written. Carol Mason author of After You Left Inspired by true stories The Woman in the White Kimono illuminates a searing portrait of one woman torn between her culture and her heart and another woman on a journey to discover the true meaning of home. Japan 1957. Seventeenyearold Naoko Nakamuras prearranged marriage secures her familys status in their traditional Japanese community. However Naoko has fallen for an American sailor and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When its learned Naoko carries the sailors child shes cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations. America present day. Tori Kovac finds a letter containing a shocking revelation. Setting out to learn the truth Toris journey leads her to a remote seaside village in Japan where she must confront the demons of the past to pave a way for redemption. In breathtaking prose The Woman in the White Kimono shows how two women decades apart are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. show more