The View From Breast Pocket Mountain
Description
Memoir Book Awards GRAND PRIZE (2022)
Winner SPR Book Awards GOLD PRIZE (2020)
Book Readers Appreciation Group Medallion (2021)
Crossing borders, cultures, creating home
The View from Breast Pocket Mountain is a unique and previously untold story, a treasure trove of experiences crossing borders and cultures, creating a life, and finding contentment in a far-off country.
As a motherless teenager raised by a caring albeit strict father, we see Anton's developing awareness of the world beyond the boundaries of her New York City neighborhood before she goes on to live in a castle in 1960s Denmark and a cabin in 1970s Vermont. With a burning curiosity and vision of a life as yet unformed, she travels overland to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and finally to the place she'll come to call home, Japan.
This memoir is filled with unexpected encounters with the very famous and those unknown and unnamed. On a journey through marriage and motherhood, love, laughter, tragedy and hope, we follow along as Anton makes her way through a life unplanned but well lived. The View from Breast Pocket Mountain is a story for our time, reminding the reader of our interconnectedness, our shared humanity.
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Reviews
Karen Hill Anton's life has been a remarkable journey, from the United States through Europe and across Asia to Japan. The View from Breast Pocket Mountain is a story woven with great compassion and skill, the ultimate combination. It is a beautiful and deeply moving narrative full of fascinating people, the most fascinating being the author herself.
Roger Pulvers, Author, Peaceful Circumstances
I'd long known of Karen Hill Anton having admired her Japan Times "Crossing Cultures" column for years. I knew she was an African-American woman who'd raised four children in Shizuoka with her Jewish-American husband, but I didn't know why or how. Now, in this deeply personal and moving memoir, we have a rich account of her journey from Washington Heights through family tragedy, world travel, literature, music, art, and dance. Eventually settling in rural Japan, she overcomes cultural and linguistic barriers. Anton is a pioneer, and this remarkable story of strength, resourcefulness and courage confirms that Japan is lucky she chose its shores to call home. Truly inspiring.
Leza Lowitz, Author, In Search of the Sun: One Woman's Quest to Find Family in Japan
