November 15 – Pat Miller – Memoir – Bamboo Secrets: One Woman’s Quest Through the Shadows of Japan
Patricia Dove Miller is a third-generation Californian, born and raised in the Berkeley hills. She has lived in the mountains outside of Cali, Colombia, in a tiny rice-farming village in North Thailand, and also at the edge of the northeastern hills in Kyoto, Japan. She attended Stanford University, and much later, at the age of sixty-six, completed her MFA in creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Pat lives in Grass Valley, where she is writing her second book and teaching creative writing.
Her memoir, Bamboo Secrets, focuses on the beauty and the difficulties she encountered while living in the cultural center of Kyoto, Japan.