Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A lovely and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long romance with an extraordinary older Japanese female in the wake of Globe War II-“one of the most intimate 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 existence all around the globe. But there is certainly one story he cannot neglect: that of his haunting romance with a inexplicable older Japanese woman in 1959..Browse More about Please 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 brutal intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of books, film, and poetry with Paul and motivated, even demanded, that he use his gifts to be the writer he is today.

But theirs was not a quiet appreciate story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan’s brutal criminal offense syndicate, attemptedto kidnap Yukiko, Paul recognized that there was a lot more to her-and to Japan in the damaging wake of Globe Battle II-than he noticed initially. Through the searing characters that Yukiko had written to him and Paul’s vivid telling of a brief history made even more effective and poignant by the weight of your time, Make sure you Enjoy Your Happiness reaches across decades and continents, inviting us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never really end.