A lovely and evocative memoir predicated on the author’s summer-long love affair with an extraordinary older Japanese woman in the wake of Globe War II-“probably the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (NY Times bestselling writer Elin Hilderbrand).

Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an adventurous lifestyle all over the world. But there is one tale he cannot ignore: that of his haunting romance with a secret older Japanese girl in 1959..READING Even more about Please be sure to Enjoy Your Joy: A Memoir Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri‑La that long‑ago summer months when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko distributed her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Paul and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to be the writer he’s today.

But theirs was not a quiet like story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan’s brutal criminal offense syndicate, attemptedto kidnap Yukiko, Paul noticed that there was much more to her-and to Japan in the devastating wake of Globe War II-than he saw initially. Through the searing letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Paul’s stunning telling of a history made all the more effective and poignant by the weight of your time, Make sure you Enjoy Your Pleasure reaches across years and continents, welcoming us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never truly end.