ForeWord Magazine selects From Japan With Love as Book of the Year finalist
Read the review from Rebecca's Reads: "...an excellent book and I highly recommend it!"
The Modesto Bee newspaper features author Mary Ruggieri on the front page.
Offering a fascinating, informative, personal, and unique perspective of life in post-war Japan through excerpts from the letters, journals and photographs of Mary A. Ruggieri, an American college girl stationed in Japan from 1946 to 1948 as a member of Women's Army Corps as part of the American military post-war occupation, "From Japan With Love" takes the reader from an army hut encampment to some of Japan's most memorable shrines and august temples. Ruggieri writes eloquently of the Japanese people and culture, her falling in love with Japan, as well as meeting the American soldier who would become her husband.
Remarkable for her articulate eyewitness account which is peppered throughout with her black-and-white photography, "From Japan With Love" is as engaging as it is informed, making it very highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in the post-war Japan reformation, mid-twentieth century Japanese culture, and the transition of Japan from a defeated nation to its nescient emergence as a western style democracy.
Esteeemed arts critic says author has created "a valuable document"