Recommendations
Reviewers are flashing thumbs up on the memoir:

• Publisher’s Weekly: “Reed’s prose is sharp, even gleeful, but his stories take faith seriously.”

• Willard Gingerich, Professor of American Literature and former Provost, Montclair State University: “You will find much to identify with in Ken Yoder Reed’s story of a unique and also emblematic life. From Lancaster County to Japan to Silicon Valley--first love found and lost, questions of service during Vietnam, silent and out loud questionings of a faith lost, then found. And for Reed, finding a novelist’s voice in a tradition that saw no place for artistic expression not bent to the ready service of the Mennonite message.”

• James Wenger, Pastor and Japan Missionary: “This is a terrific book-- the best written cross-cultural memoir I have ever read. Reed went to Japan as a conscientious objector during Vietnam and lived with a Japanese family for three years, while teaching English there. His description of his experience in Japan alone is worth the price of the book.”

• Noriaki Gentsu, Japanese Journalist: “Initially, I was uncertain: Can an atheistic Baby Boomer from a Buddhist family in Japan really understand the Mennonite world described in this memoir? My doubts disappeared as I delved into the idyllic Mennonite community of the 1950s and 60s. Reed evaluates his past from the distance of forty years and from two perspectives: then and now. This resonates with me, a non-Christian Baby Boomer, wanting to reflect on my own life. I give it five stars!”