Excerpt from The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Now, two days later, I am waiting to board the plane.

Anyone else would surely be astounded that I had found Mariko so quickly. The first hit, as Toni would say, if Toni knew. Astounding.

But I hadn't been that surprised. I'm still not. I had found my old friend so easily because there is only one Mariko Inoue Hayashi in all the world.

Only the one.

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