https://www.karenhillanton.com/the-author daily 0.75 2023-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/1599374307046-5X0T4CLKN5VOZEO0LY08/Author%2BPhoto.jpg The Author - About the Author Karen Hill Anton is a writer, columnist, consultant and coach. For more than fifteen years, Karen Hill Anton wrote the popular column “Crossing Cultures” for the Japan Times. Her long-running column “Another Look” for Chunichi Shimbun, invited its Japanese readers to translate it, and often more than 100 translations were submitted for each column. Additionally, she wrote a bi-monthly opinion essay for “Shukan ST” a publication directed at Japanese studying English. Beginning in 2000, Karen consulted and managed employee development programs for global corporations in Japan, including Citibank, Eli Lilly, Shinsei Bank, and JP Morgan, among others. She has coached senior executives in the finance, pharmaceuticals and software industries. Karen has been especially successful in guiding Japanese women seeking to change careers, make significant lifestyle alterations, as well as re-enter the workforce after maternity leave. Karen was invited to serve on the Internationalization and Society Advisory Council of Prime Ministers Keizō Obuchi and Ryutaro Hashimoto. She is Emerita: Board of Governors, Temple University, Japan Campus, Shizuoka Human Rights Association, the Jun Ashida Educational Foundation Committee, and is an Allman Fellow and Freeman Foundation Fellow. She is regularly invited to speak to international, civic and educational organizations. Most recently, she received a standing ovation as a Plenary Speaker at the JALT22 (Japan Association of Language Teachers) conference in Fukuoka. She has presented workshops and seminars on the craft of memoir writing for the Japan Writers’ Conference, and the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators. Her memoir, The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, has been widely and warmly received by readers. The memoir is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books, 2021 B.R.A.G Medallion, and the 2020 SPR Book Awards Gold Prize. A Thousand Graces is her first novel. Originally from New York City, Karen has made her home with her husband William Anton in the rural province of Shizuoka, Japan, since 1975. https://www.karenhillanton.com/media daily 0.75 2020-09-17 https://www.karenhillanton.com/book daily 0.75 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/1599376270655-Z5VTMV0VIWU6JF8NFMWN/anton_frontcover.jpg Breast Pocket Mountain 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. To those who’ve ever wondered what their lives would be if they’d taken that road without a map, this is the book you need to read. The View From Breast Pocket Mountain gives us a glimpse of a life not designed or even imagined. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/908a3d40-9577-46e3-b4bc-4f61d29aabf5/brag-medallion-sticker.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/61865349-20d9-4355-95fb-bd09fbdc62a1/WINNER2020BADGEWEB.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/e3cd9582-38ef-4165-a9e5-d89cb6684516/Screen+Shot+2023-03-10+at+16.21.16.png https://www.karenhillanton.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4de0a684718a54e37d875a/1598939317255-ET6E7HM7LVXOFDI4HYTT/15994672_895685617232_6111223709632938673_o.jpg Contact - Get in touch Please feel free to write me. I like knowing who’s reading my work. I am interested to hear from you and learn about you. 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She's not certain what she wants, but knows that unlike her beloved brother, her future does not spell contentment on a tea farm. Her self-absorbed best friend has a rebellious streak but doesn't present a model Chie wants to follow. Entering college, Chie plunges headlong into emotional turmoil as she takes her first misguided steps into womanhood—she misreads the attention of one professor and the aspirations of another. Set in 1970s Japan, the Showa era, the story evokes nostalgia for a simpler time as traditional customs and values fade away and Japanese society inexorably changes to meet the expectations and demands of a more modern world. The characters in this novel, drawn with a deft deliberation and intimate distance, arouse empathy as they struggle, submit, and surrender.