Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.   Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura s prearranged marriage to the son of her father s business associate would secure her family s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man. An American sailor, a  gaijin —and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it s learned Naoko carries the sailor s child, she s cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences that will ripple across generations.   America, present day. Tori Kovac, caring for her dying father, finds a letter containing a shocking revelation—one that calls into question everything she understood about him, her family, and herself. Setting out to learn the truth behind the letter, Tori s journey leads her half-way around the world to a remote sea-side village in Japan, where she must confr