Peace Is a Chain Reaction, Tanya Lee Stone
Peace Is a Chain Reaction, Tanya Lee Stone
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Peace Is a Chain Reaction

Author: Tanya Lee Stone

Narrator: June Angela, Brian Nishii

Unabridged: 3 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/18/2022


Synopsis

Adults wage war, while children are unwitting victims, pulled into a maelstrom of fear and hate without any choice. This is a story about two groups of teenagers on opposite sides of the world, forever connected by an act of war. It is a story about
the adults some of those teens became, forever connected by acts of forgiveness, understanding, and peace. And it is a story about one remarkable man, whose heart belonged to both America and Japan, who put that peace and understanding in motion.

Panning the camera wide, Tanya Lee Stone lays the global groundwork for the story’s context before zeroing in on the lives of the people involved providing an intimate look at how their changing perspectives affected their actions. Through
meticulous research and interviews, she skillfully weaves all these stories together, illuminating how, despite the devastating pain and destruction caused by war, peace can be a chain reaction.

About Tanya Lee Stone

Tanya Lee Stone is a former editor and award-winning author who often writes about strong women. She has garnered starred reviews and other accolades for books such as UP CLOSE: ELLA FITZGERALD and the highly popular AMELIA EARHART.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Richie

Richie’s Picks: PEACE IS A CHAIN REACTION: HOW WORLD WAR II JAPANESE BALLOON BOMBS BROUGHT PEOPLE OF TWO NATIONS TOGETHER by Tanya Lee Stone, Candlewick, September 2022, 176p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-7686-5 “I AM AN AMERICAN” – Large sign posted outside a grocery store in Oakland, the day after Pearl Harbor......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

The strength of this book lies in the detailed accounts of some of the people directly involved in wartime tragedy. It brings together Japanese-Americans wrongly interred, Japanese school girls indoctrinated to eagerly sacrifice themselves in making weapons aimed at civilians, and the families of ch......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

This one is a 4.5 for me. Reading it left me just as inspired and in awe of the human capacity healing as Caren Stelson's Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, another book about WWII published in 2016. This narrative nonfiction title tells the story of Yuzuru John Takeshita, who was born and r......more