Paul Rogers

Although Ruby has enjoyed eating bananas and playing with spaghetti at her baby table, she now wants to sit at her parents' dining table and eat with a grown-up plate and cup.

"Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri-La that longago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with...