Flower of the Pacific

About the Book

"This novel about WWII begins at Pearl Harbor shortly before the Day of Infamy … Iris Hashimoto, a Nisei born in San Francisco, travels to Japan to vist her relatives and gets trapped there … she winds up as a kind of double agent Tokyo Rose … [McGraw Boldt] balances Iris' bouts of culture shock with credible battle scenes." —Washington Post

"So well-plotted and executed, the characters are so finely drawn, interesting and realistic, the research is so meticulous … marvelous, enduring." —Patricia Gallagher

About the Author

Lana McGraw Boldt was born a fourth-generation Oregonian. She attended the University of Oregon, earning a degree in English literature, and did postgraduate work in applied psychology at the University of Washington. Whith her husbank, Darrell, she served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia. The Marshal Islands Cultural Museum is a result of some of her work there.