Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir

  • Author: Paul Brinkley-Rogers
  • Narrator: James Langton
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:33:05
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Synopsis

A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author’s summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II—“the most romantic memoir you’re likely to read in a lifetime” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).

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 long‑ago 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 Paul and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to become the writer he is today.

But theirs was not a quiet love story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan’s brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to her—and to Japan in the devastating wake of World War II—than he saw at first glance. Through the searing letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Paul’s vivid telling of a history made all the more powerful and poignant by the weight of time, Please Enjoy Your Happiness reaches across decades and continents, inviting us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never truly end.

Chapters

  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 01 Title

    Duration: 37s
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 02 Prologue

    Duration: 10min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 03 Ch1

    Duration: 20min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 04 Ch2

    Duration: 21min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 05 Ch3

    Duration: 21min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 06 Ch4

    Duration: 17min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 07 Ch5

    Duration: 37min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 08 Ch6

    Duration: 25min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 09 Ch7

    Duration: 23min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 10 Ch8

    Duration: 25min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 11 Ch9

    Duration: 19min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 12 Ch10

    Duration: 16min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 13 Ch11

    Duration: 20min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 14 Ch12

    Duration: 22min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 15 Ch13

    Duration: 22min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 16 Ch14

    Duration: 26min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 17 Ch15

    Duration: 20min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 18 Ch16

    Duration: 24min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 19 Ch17

    Duration: 22min
  • PleaseEnjoyYourHappiness 20 Ch18

    Duration: 16min
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