Please Enjoy Your Happiness

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the authors summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War IIthe most romantic memoir youre likely to read in a lifetime (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).Pulitzer Prizewinning war correspondent Paul BrinkleyRogers 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 ShangriLa that longago 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, Japans brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to herand to Japan in the devastating wake of World War IIthan he saw at first glance. Through the searing letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Pauls 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.