29 Aug / Spam® Cans, Rice Balls and Pearls: Snippets of Memory from World War II by Bruce Muench [in AsianWeek]
A rather quirky, earnest memoir of sorts – although Muench won’t mind if you call it a novel because he admits that “there is some fiction to it.” Spam® Cans follows a 17-year-old boy in the U.S. Navy during World War II and his unlikely relationship with a young Japanese man whom he meets by chance during a post-war trial.
Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, August 29, 2003
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002