Its great to be here. And its wonderful to be talking about these books. And if you pick up amy stanlys stranger in the shoguns city you can smell the lamenting you can hear the cook of the abacus in the shop. You can yoeven feel the chill of the japanese snow country. This is one of the most evocative and gorgeously written examples of the historians craft you will read. In this marvelous book amy tells the story of tsuneno, a frustrated, stubborn thrice married japanese woman in the early part of the 19th century runs off to the big city of edo, the predecessor city to todays tokyo. This is a tale ofmigration, the lures of the city, aspirations , the constraints on womens lives and the indefinable force of personality and in this year and a half of tragedy, the emergence that thisbook offers in a different world is really a tonic. Stranger in the shoguns city won the 2021 pen price for biography and the 2021 National Book 1critics circle award for biography. It is also a finalist for
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