Meet the Author: Book Talk and Signing

Sayonara Cowboy, by William Yukikazu Fellenberg, is about a boy born to an American G.I. and a Yokohama shopgirl in Occupation Japan. His story begins as a four-year-old in 1952, wending his way in a world still recovering from two dreadful legacies in the aftermath of World II.

“Bill Fellenberg’s coming-of-age memoir offers the equivalent of a warm hug. Pulled between two cultures, two countries and two parents, he navigates his childhood with wry self-deprecation and gentle insight. Sayonara Cowboy is, at its heart, about the wars we fight—across oceans, in our own homes, within ourselves—and the love that is the only path to peace.”

—BIZZY COY, writer, The New Yorker, Vulture