G487 Book Review of Fog Island Mountains by Michelle Bailat Jones
Name of Book: Fog Island Mountains Author: Michelle Bailat Jones ISBN: 9781630150020 Publisher: Tantor Type of book: Japan, Kirishima Island, Asian female/white male, storm, infidelity, typhoon, preparations, aftereffects, wild animals, mysteries, secrets, 2000s Year it was published: 2014 Summary: What if you could rewrite a tragedy? What if you could give grace to someone s greatest mistake? Huddled beneath the volcanoes of the Kirishima mountain range in southern Japan, also called the Fog Island Mountains, the inhabitants of small town Komachi are waiting for the biggest of the summer's typhoons. South African expatriate Alec Chester has lived in Komachi for nearly forty years. Alec considers himself an ordinary man, with common troubles and mundane achievements until his doctor gives him a terminal cancer diagnosis and his wife, Kanae, disappears into the gathering storm. Kanae flees from the terrifying reality of Alec's diagnosis, even going so far as...