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DESCRIPTION:<p style="line-height:1.38\;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;
 "><span style="font-size:11pt\;font-family:Arial\,sans-serif\;color:#00000
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 :pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">Japan Society is honored to welcome debut au
 thor Natalie Anna Jacobsen for a special talk and signing in celebration o
 f the release of her first book\, <span style="font-size:11pt\;font-family
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 ht:400\;font-style:italic\;font-variant:normal\;text-decoration:none\;vert
 ical-align:baseline\;white-space:pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">Ghost Train<
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 background-color:transparent\;font-weight:400\;font-style:normal\;font-var
 iant:normal\;text-decoration:none\;vertical-align:baseline\;white-space:pr
 e\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">\, a Young Adult historical fantasy set in 1877
  Kyoto during the early years of the Meiji Restoration.\n<strong>\n</stron
 g>\n<p style="line-height:1.38\;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"><span
  style="font-size:11pt\;font-family:Arial\,sans-serif\;color:#000000\;back
 ground-color:transparent\;font-weight:400\;font-style:italic\;font-variant
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 hite-space:pre-wrap\;">Ghost Train <span style="font-size:11pt\;font-famil
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 ght:400\;font-style:normal\;font-variant:normal\;text-decoration:none\;ver
 tical-align:baseline\;white-space:pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">tells the s
 tory of Maru Hosokawa\, a samurai daughter now thrust into a difficult new
  era. With the Meiji Restoration\, foreign inventions—trains\, electrici
 ty and telephones—are introduced\, but with them come plagues and demons
 . Maru’s father\, a retired samurai\, has laid down his sword and ventur
 es far from home to be a merchant\, leaving Maru alone to find work and he
 lp rebuild her family. \n<strong>\n</strong>\n<p style="line-height:1.38\
 ;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"><span style="font-size:11pt\;font-fa
 mily:Arial\,sans-serif\;color:#000000\;background-color:transparent\;font-
 weight:400\;font-style:normal\;font-variant:normal\;text-decoration:none\;
 vertical-align:baseline\;white-space:pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">And then
  ghosts start to visit Maru.\n<strong>\n</strong>\n<p style="line-height:1
 .38\;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"><span style="font-size:11pt\;fon
 t-family:Arial\,sans-serif\;color:#000000\;background-color:transparent\;f
 ont-weight:400\;font-style:normal\;font-variant:normal\;text-decoration:no
 ne\;vertical-align:baseline\;white-space:pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">They
  ask her for help to find their murderer: a demon on the loose. Although s
 he flees at first\, she can’t outrun her grief over missing her father\,
  the anxiety over her future\, nor her destiny. Against a backdrop of summ
 er festivals and rainstorms\, Maru must confront authority and her fears\,
  before she becomes the next ghost.\n<p style="line-height:1.38\;margin-to
 p:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"><span style="font-size:11pt\;font-family:Arial
 \,sans-serif\;color:#000000\;background-color:transparent\;font-weight:400
 \;font-style:normal\;font-variant:normal\;text-decoration:none\;vertical-a
 lign:baseline\;white-space:pre\;white-space:pre-wrap\;">Inspired by true h
 istorical events and based on yokai myths\, this story was built with guid
 ance by historians and subject matter experts both in Japan and the U.S. a
 nd looks to reflect on 19th-century life during the tumultuous\, society-a
 ltering leadership of Emperor Meiji… with just a few more ghosts.\n<p st
 yle="line-height:1.38\;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"> \n\n<p style
 ="line-height:1.38\;margin-top:0pt\;margin-bottom:0pt\;"><span style="font
 -size:11pt\;font-family:Arial\,sans-serif\;color:#000000\;background-color
 :transparent\;font-weight:400\;font-style:normal\;font-variant:normal\;tex
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 re-wrap\;">\n<p style="line-height: 1.38\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom
 : 0pt\;"><span style="font-size: 11pt\; font-family: Arial\,sans-serif\; c
 olor: #000000\; background-color: transparent\; font-weight: 400\; font-st
 yle: normal\; font-variant: normal\; text-decoration: none\; vertical-alig
 n: baseline\; white-space: pre-wrap\;">Attendees of Japan Society’s Nata
 lie Anna Jacobsen<span style="font-size: 11pt\; font-family: Arial\,sans-s
 erif\; color: #000000\; background-color: transparent\; font-weight: 700\;
  font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; text-decoration: none\; verti
 cal-align: baseline\; white-space: pre-wrap\;"> <span style="font-size: 11
 pt\; font-family: Arial\,sans-serif\; color: #000000\; background-color: t
 ransparent\; font-weight: 400\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\
 ; text-decoration: none\; vertical-align: baseline\; white-space: pre-wrap
 \;">talk and signing will be able to purchase copies of <span style="font-
 size: 11pt\; font-family: Arial\,sans-serif\; color: #000000\; background-
 color: transparent\; font-weight: 400\; font-style: italic\; font-variant:
  normal\; text-decoration: none\; vertical-align: baseline\; white-space: 
 pre-wrap\;">Ghost Train <span style="font-size: 11pt\; font-family: Arial\
 ,sans-serif\; color: #000000\; background-color: transparent\; font-weight
 : 400\; font-style: normal\; font-variant: normal\; text-decoration: none\
 ; vertical-align: baseline\; white-space: pre-wrap\;">at the event or brin
 g books from home for a signing session following the author’s talk.\n<p
  style="line-height: 1.38\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"> \n\n
 <p style="line-height: 1.38\; margin-top: 0pt\; margin-bottom: 0pt\;"><spa
 n style="font-size: 11pt\; font-family: Arial\,sans-serif\; color: #000000
 \; background-color: transparent\; font-weight: 400\; font-style: normal\;
  font-variant: normal\; text-decoration: none\; vertical-align: baseline\;
  white-space: pre-wrap\;">Please find further information at: https://japa
 nsociety.org/events/author-talk-and-signing-natalie-anna-jacobsen-author-o
 f-yokai-fantasy-ghost-train/ \n\n
DTSTAMP:20241212T044434Z
SUMMARY:Debut Author Talk and Signing: Natalie Anna Jacobsen\, author of Yo
 ung Adult Yokai Fantasy Ghost Train
URL:/en/events/2024/11/21/debut-author-talk-and-signing-natalie-anna-jacobs
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