As they get closer to the truth-and the tea bowl-the women must choose between seizing their dreams or righting the terrible wrong that has poisoned its legacy for centuries. Glimpses of the past set the stage as they hunt for the lost masterpiece, uncovering long-buried secrets in their wake. With nothing in common, Nori and Robin suddenly find their futures inextricably linked to an ancient, elusive tea bowl. But with her grandmother in the hospital, the family business is foundering. Nori knows if her luck doesn’t change soon, she’ll lose what little she has left. 2017, Susan Spann (USA) - 100 FAMOUS MOUNTAINS OF JAPAN A journey to climb the 100 famous mountains of Japan described in KyuyaFukadas 1964 book 100. On the other side of town, Nori Okuda sells rice bowls and tea cups to Tokyo restaurants, as her family has done for generations. The inspiring memoir of a middle-aged woman who decided to break free from fear and climb one hundred Japanese mountains in a single year, even after an aggressive cancer threatened to derail her dream. Her stalled dissertation sits on her laptop, unopened in months, and she has no one to confide in but her goldfish. She’s stuck in a dead-end job testing antiquities for an auction house, but her true love is poetry, not pottery. Author of CLIMB (Prometheus) & The Hiro Hattori mysteries (Minotaur/Seventh Street Books) Susan Spann, Fair Oaks, California. In modern-day Tokyo, Robin Swann’s life has sputtered to a stop.
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For three hundred years, a missing tea bowl passes from one fortune-seeker to the next, indelibly altering the lives of those who possess it.
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