"When Evan's father dies, Evan finds a hand-bound yellow book on his desk--the book his father had been reading when he passed away. It is the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in World War II. Why was his father reading it? Who was the American soldier also stranded there? And what could this possibly mean for Evan?"--Dust jacket.
After his father dies, a son finds a diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a small Pacific island in World War II, but he's confused as to why his father was reading it.
When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.
Before Evan's father died, he was obsessed with a Japanese soldier's World War II diary. Now, Evan is reluctantly living with his estranged grandfather, whose past is tied to the diary's shocking conclusion.
