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  Members\n\nAll JANM Members are invited to an exclusive conversation and 
 pre-event book signing with Edgar Award–winning author &lt;strong&gt;Naomi Hi
 rahara&lt;/strong&gt; prior to the public program about her latest book\, &lt;a h
 ref=&quot;https://janmstore.com/products/evergreen&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Evergre
 en&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.\n\n&lt;em&gt;Members who attend will also receive early access to s
 eating for the 2 p.m. JANM Book Club event. You must RSVP separately for t
 hat program.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.janm.org/events/2023-09-09/janm-book-c
 lub-evergreen-naomi-hirahara&quot;&gt;RSVP NOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;\nNAOMI HIRAHARA\n&lt;strong&gt;N
 aomi Hirahara&lt;/strong&gt; is an Edgar Award–winning author of multiple tra
 ditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries\, w
 hich have been published in Japanese\, Korean\, and French\, feature a Los
  Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The seventh an
 d final Mas Arai mystery is &lt;em&gt;Hiroshima Boy&lt;/em&gt;\, which was nominated 
 for an Edgar Award for best paperback original. Her first historical myste
 ry is &lt;em&gt;Clark and Division&lt;/em&gt;\, which follows a Japanese American fam
 ily’s move to Chicago in 1944 after being released from a California war
 time detention center. Her second Leilani Santiago Hawai‘i mystery\, &lt;e
 m&gt;An Eternal Lei&lt;/em&gt;\, was released in March 2022. Her newest book\, &lt;em
 &gt;Evergreen&lt;/em&gt;\,&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;tells the story of a Japanese American nurse
 ’s aide who navigates the dangers of post–World War II and post-Manzan
 ar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family. A former jou
 rnalist with &lt;em&gt;The Rafu Shimpo&lt;/em&gt; newspaper\, Naomi has also written
  numerous nonfiction history books and curated exhibitions. She has also w
 ritten a middle-grade novel\, &lt;em&gt;1001 Cranes&lt;/em&gt;.\n
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SUMMARY:Members Only Meet-and-Greet with Naomi Hirahara
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