{"id":9019,"date":"2009-11-02T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2009-11-02T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T12:08:13","slug":"jet-alum-liz-sheffield-interviews-american-fuji-author-sara-backer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/02\/jet-alum-liz-sheffield-interviews-american-fuji-author-sara-backer\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Liz Sheffield interviews &#8220;American Fuji&#8221; author Sara Backer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabacker.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9020\" title=\"fuji-1\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fuji-1.jpg\" alt=\"fuji-1\" width=\"161\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fuji-1.jpg 202w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fuji-1-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**************<\/p>\n<p>Writers and blogger <strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liz Sheffield<\/a> (Hokkaio-ken, Sapporo-shi, 1993-95)<\/strong> has a great post on her blog <strong>Motherlogue<\/strong> about a new book out titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabacker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>America Fuji<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabacker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sara Backer<\/strong><\/a> along with a separate post in which she interviews Backer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago I finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabacker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Fuji<\/a> by Sara Backer.\u00a0 From the moment I saw this book on the shelf of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdplacebooks.com\/node\" target=\"_blank\">local, independent bookstore,<\/a> I knew I had to read it. It\u2019s about an American woman, Gaby Stanton, who is living in Shizuoka, Japan and teaching university-level English\u2026that is until she gets fired and begins working for a fantasy funeral company, Gone With the Wind. Stanton meets Alex Thorn, a father who comes to Japan to answer questions about his son\u2019s death while he was a student at the university where Gaby was employed.\u00a0 Gaby and Alex are just two of the wonderful, creative cast of characters that Backer weaves into this compelling story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/27\/american-fuji\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of Liz Sheffield&#8217;s post on the book &#8220;<em>American Fuji<\/em>.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read Liz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/29\/interview-with-sara-backer\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with &#8220;<em>American Fuji<\/em>&#8221; author Sara Backer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Read Liz&#8217;s <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/motherlogue.wordpress.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/05\/interview-with-suzanne-kamata\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with fellow JET alum Suzanne Kamata<\/a> about Suzanne&#8217;s book <em><strong><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/www.powells.com');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/61-9781932279337-2\" target=\"_blank\">Call Me Okaasan:\u00a0 Adventures in Multicultural Mothering<\/a>. <\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Follow Liz&#8217;s blog here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/motherlogue.wordpress.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Liz has also written the following essays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlewomanmagazine.com\/feb09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Co-Sleeping Quandary<\/a>, <em>Seattle Woman<\/em> (February 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunmagazine.org\/issues\/399\/the_dinner_table\" target=\"_blank\">Dinner Table<\/a>, <em>The Sun <\/em>(Readers Write, March 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetprogramme.org\/documents\/pubs\/JET%20JOURNAL%202009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">What Is The Kanji For Brother<\/a>, Honorary Mention, JET Essay Contest (August 2009) Note: essay is on page 182<\/li>\n<li>Harmony at Home, <em>Wilmington Parent<\/em> (August 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Stage Fright, <em>YOUMaga<\/em> (September 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>and short fiction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarymama.com\/fiction\/archives\/001993.html\" target=\"_blank\">Broken Mug<\/a>, <em>Literary Mama<\/em> (May 2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>************** Writers and blogger Liz Sheffield (Hokkaio-ken, Sapporo-shi, 1993-95) has a great post on her blog Motherlogue about a new book out titled America Fuji by Sara Backer along with a separate post in which she interviews Backer. A few weeks ago I finished reading American Fuji by Sara Backer.\u00a0 From the moment I saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,40,25,6],"tags":[155,156,154],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-books","category-interviewprofile","category-writers","tag-america-fuji","tag-liz-sheffield","tag-sara-backer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-2lt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}