Picture Bride: A Novel

October 11, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, John A. Burns Hall, East-West Center Gallery

Please join us for a book talk about this new historical novel by Mike Malaghan.

Picture Bride is the story of Haru, a woman of silk and steel. To escape being sold into prostitution in turn-of-the-century Japan, Haru takes refuge in a Buddhist temple and later flees to the U.S. territory of Hawaii. Hawaii is a strange new world. The young picture bride finds herself with a husband that doesn't want her and in a society that distrusts her Japanese heritage. From the shrines of Kyushu to the shores of Hawaii, Picture Bride is a sweeping saga of Japanese immigrants who survived-and thrived-against great odds.

A lover of history, Mike Malaghan has visited 200 countries and territories starting in 1966 with the Peace Corps in Africa. After 41 years in business, he retired as president of a major Walt Disney licensee, and turned to writing. Married to a Japanese woman and living in Hawaii, Mike was inspired by the 2006 film, The First Battle: the Battle for Equality in War-Time Hawaii. Picture Bride, his first novel, is volume one in a planned trilogy honoring the Japanese-Americans who fought for America in WWII.

Free admission. Limited seating

Please RSVP by Monday, Oct. 10, 2016 at: 944-7111 or EWCInfo@EastWestCenter.org

Parking is available for $5 on the lawn between Burns Hall and Hale Manoa. Please pay attendant stationed at entrance to lawn parking.


Event Sponsor
East-West Center, Mānoa Campus

More Information
944-7111, EWCInfo@eastwestcenter.org

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