This week's excerpt comes from our upcoming novel, In the Woods of Memory by Shun Medoruma, which was featured in the latest issue of The Asia-Pacific Journal.
This passage, pulled from the first chapter of the novel, describes two related incidents that take place on a small island: the rape of a young woman, and a young man’s attempt to get revenge, events that take place in the middle of May 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa.
Read the excerpt as well as The Asia-Pacific Journal's introductory comments on the novel by clicking here.