All tell and no show! I sent it to a publisher who sent a rejection letter saying that while she liked the story, my writing wasn’t strong enough. ::cringing:: I wrote the first draft almost 30 years ago. At a deeper level, it’s an historical novel about maintaining balance during an upheaval, whether cultural, personal, or both. It’s the coming-of-age story of a Japanese girl in the aftermath of WWII. As the earth trembles and splits beneath her, Miyoko must jump forward-or back. Tradition says she must obey, but her secret heart whispers that the new laws can free her. When tragedy strikes, sixteen-year-old Miyoko is ordered to obey her family’s wishes or disgrace the memory of her father and bring hardship upon her family. Now she must earn a living caring for the children of an American family at the nearby air base. It’s 1952 Japan, seven years since the war was lost to the Americans, seven years since Miyoko lost her father and the home of her birth. The gap between the old Japan and the new is never so wide as when it tears open a young girl’s heart… All tell and no show!Ĭandace Williams – 30 January 2014 The Back Flap I wrote the first draft almost 30 years ago.
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