Uncertain Luck
Rea Keech
Nov 2023 · Real Nice Books · Narrated by Rea Keech
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It's 1969, and Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support student protests against the Vietnam War--but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. In despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. In Tokyo, Emiko meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now she is in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years.
It's 1969, and Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support student protests against the Vietnam War--but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. In despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. In Tokyo, Emiko meets Juan, an American sold...
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A large part of Rea Keech's career has been teaching international students in college, including at the University of Tehran (Peace Corps assignment), the University of South Carolina, Voorhees College, schools in Japan and Greece, and the community college in Maryland, where he now lives. He is a retired Professor of World Literature and Linguistics.In Japan, Keech taught English from 1969 to 1971. Uncertain Luck is his second novel set outside of the United States. The title refers to the vaguest prediction possible on an omikuji fortune paper that one gets at a Shinto shrine or Buddhist temple in Japan.
A large part of Rea Keech's career has been teaching international students in college, including at the University of Tehran (Peace Corps assignment), the University of South Carolina, Voorhees College, schools in Japan and Greece, and the community college in Maryland, where he now lives. He is...
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