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"A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II--""the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime"" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand). Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri-La that long-ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Paul and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to become the writer he is today. But theirs was not a quiet love story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan's brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to her--and to Japan in the devastating wake of World War II--than he saw at first glance. Through the searing letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Paul's vivid telling of a history made all the more powerful and poignant by the weight of time, Please Enjoy Your Happiness reaches across decades and continents, inviting us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never truly end."

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-Please enjoy...the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime.---Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US

[A] haunting memoir.--Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US Daily Mail (UK) A moving memoir exploring the last imprint of his first love.--Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US The Lady (UK) Enchanting.--Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US Daily Express (UK) Please enjoy...the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime. --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US

Please enjoy the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime. --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of HERE'S TO US

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Paul Brinkley-Rogers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and veteran war correspondent. For many years he worked in Asia as a staff member of Newsweek, covering the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, the death of Chairman Mao, and Japan's economic miracle. He also reported from Latin America for The Miami Herald, sharing the Pulitzer Prize with a reporting team in 2001 for coverage of the Elian Gonzalez custody battle. He is the author of Please Enjoy Your Happiness, a memoir. Now retired, he lives in Arizona.

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