Distant Land of My Father

<strong>A<em> Los Angeles Times</em> Bestseller award-winning author Bo Caldwell's <em>The Distant Land of My Father</em> is a powerful fictional memoir of longing and guilt that will resonate with curious sensitive daughters and with independent perhaps secretive fathers (<em>The News & Observer </em>-Raleigh)</strong>Anna the narrator of this riveting novel lives in a storybook world: exotic pre-World War II Shanghai with handsome young parents wealth and comfort. Her father the son of missionaries leads a charmed and secretive life though his greatest joy is sharing his beloved city with his only daughter. Yet when Anna and her mother flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai to return to California he stays behind believing his connections and a little bit of luck will keep him safe. Through Anna's memories and her father's journals we learn of his fall from charismatic millionaire to tortured prisoner in a story of betrayal and reconciliation that spans two continents. Breathtaking and richly lyrica The Distant Land of My Father unfolds to reveal an enduring family love through tragic circumstances.