Ghosts of Nagasaki -- Free to Download from Kindle

My novel, The Ghosts of Nagasaki, is free to download on Kindle for the next day or so. Here is the link:

https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Nagasak...

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Here is the first page of the book


The long backward perspective one gets from the angle of a word processor some years later is a tricky one. As a connoisseur of biography and autobiography I know that there is nothing less reliable than someone writing about his or her own past from his or her own perspective. And for the general welfare of those who look for the bare facts of the matter, I am obliged to stamp on the very first page, in the very first paragraph, in bold italics: All fact-seekers beware.

But if the skewed vision of someone determined to live out their ghosts through words is permitted, then perhaps we may leave the world of pure facts behind and look for an ounce of truth, perhaps the only ounce that matters. One thing is certain, however: I cannot tell you with any great certainty where I am from, what I do, or what I did, for as soon as the telling begins the things that happened change. The only thing I can tell you reliably is that soon I will be dead. The fact that I am not already dead, that I have lived on years after my heart stopped, is indeed a miracle. Perhaps this silly bit of narrative will put the matter to rest.

To sleep, to dream, but to dream of a life past twenty-six, my age at the time of these words... well, that seems a fantasy beyond imagination.