{"id":45163,"date":"2019-11-10T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=45163"},"modified":"2019-11-10T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T14:16:05","slug":"the-same-moon-by-jet-alumna-sarah-coomber-yamaguchi-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/10\/the-same-moon-by-jet-alumna-sarah-coomber-yamaguchi-ken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Same Moon by JET alumna, Sarah Coomber (Yamaguchi-ken)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JET memoir explores a heart healed in rural Japan <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2019: Sometimes you have to run far, far away to find your way home.
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That\u2019s what Sarah Coomber learned when she traded out her wrecked young-adult life in Minnesota for a contract teaching English with the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. 
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Her debut memoir, The Same Moon <\/em>(TouchPoint Press, 2019), is the story of a young woman seeking respite in Japan after a painful divorce, hoping to spend a solitary year nursing her wounded heart. Instead, she finds herself drawn more and more deeply into an isolated rural community, where she finds controversial romance, cross-cultural challenges and, over the course of two years, new purpose in life. 
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It isn\u2019t the Japan she was seeking, but it turns out to be the Japan she needs. 
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Described as \u201cinspiring, a story of grit and humanity\u201d by Readers\u2019 Choice, The Same Moon<\/em> weaves Coomber\u2019s personal tests of love, faith and partial assimilation with the experience of being an assistant English teacher in the mid-1990s. The story is informed by Coomber\u2019s multiple experiences with Japan, beginning with a home stay at age 16, and including 11 years of koto studies in Yamaguchi and Oregon, and her ongoing relationship with her host family. 
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Coomber is an award-winning public relations professional and former journalist. Her stories and essays about her experiences in Japan have appeared in The<\/em> Christian Science Monitor, The Japan Times, The Star Tribune, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Memoir Journal <\/em>and The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information,<\/em> please visit Coomber\u2019s website at https:\/\/sarahcoomber.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the cover of The Same Moon:<\/em>
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\u201cSarah Coomber has written an insightful story about her journey to Japan and a journey to find herself. Readers will enjoy an entertaining and honest account of a young woman\u2019s self-discovery in a foreign land.\u201d
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\u2014Laura Kriska, author of The Accidental Office Lady: an American Woman in Corporate Japan<\/em> and cross-cultural consultant
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\u201cWith sensitivity and humility, exploring no one\u2019s story but her own, Coomber addresses the question of this American hour: how to honor\u2014even cherish\u2014fellow humans regardless of divergent cultural, political or spiritual convictions. The Same Moon injects hope into the current American climate of intolerance.\u201d
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\u2014<\/em>Natalie Kusz, award-winning memoirist and author of Road Song<\/em>
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\u201cSarah captures in great detail many things unique to Japan in nature, daily life and relationships.\u201d
\u2014<\/em>Yukari Sakamoto, author of Food Sake Tokyo, <\/em>and Tokyo-based chef, sommelier and sh\u014dch\u016b adviser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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