A Sky of Infinite Blue: A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self

-For readers who like … : Books and workbooks that focus on spirituality and/or mindfulness and how to weave these practices into daily life.

-Addresses important issues: This memoir touches on childhood emotional abuse, loss of loved ones, grieving, forgiveness and reconciliation, suffering, impermanence, the middle ways, adversity, and spiritual awakening.

-Crossing two popular genres: Memoir (specifically, immigrant memoir, which has seen rising sales in recent years) and spiritual seeking.

-Timely themes: Due to the prolonged pandemic lockdown and hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID, more people are reading books and thinking about life and death and the meaning of it all-the very questions explored in this memoir.