New York: Viking, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, in which three women tell of their time with author Lafcadio Hearn, best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan, among them a Greek woman who "willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator.". ISBN: 978-0735221017.