A great read. Happy Friday!

The Yokota Officers Club by Sarah Bird

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Get ready for a lot of compliments because Sarah Bird is one of my favorite laugh-out-loud, knows her way around a funny scene and a great sentence kind of writer. This book takes things even further away from her Texas books, all the way to Japan with the narrator, a twenty-something visiting her family stationed in Japan with the Air Force during a college summer break.

What follows is a heart-breaking history of the US, Japan and one fragile family bound together by love, betrayal and loss. I cannot tell you how much I loved this novel. Some of the scenes still come back to me in vivid detail months after I read it. If you liked M*A*S*H, then this book has the same pathos, humor, crazy juxtopostion of the USA in another country doing things that do not even make sense and yet — change lives forever.

I loved it.

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