What The Japan Times columnist and skilled Japanese calligrapher knows about leading an adventurous life and living in Japan
Memoir writer Karen Hill Anton has certainly had one interesting life!
Firstly she grew up in New York City and hitch-hiked the length and breadth of Europe as a youngster in 1965.
Next, in 1974, she left the United States with her husband and daughter, 5, and drove a VW Beetle from Amsterdam to Afghanistan.
Indeed, the family was on the road, mostly camping, for a year before arriving in Japan.
“After our first year of studying yoga and martial arts under a tyrannical sensei, we settled in rural Japan,” Anton said.
“The province of Shizuoka, Japan’s premier green-tea growing region, is where I’ve made my home and raised my four bilingual-bicultural children.”
Anton’s acclaimed memoir The View From Breast Pocket Mountain has been awarded the Book Readers Appreciation Group (BRAG) medallion 2021 and the Self-Publishing Review Book Awards gold medal 2020.
And this week she shares with Forever Young Autobiographies readers more about the book, how it was created plus tips for new creators …
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