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Chicago continues. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the 36th annual printers role lit fast. Please help me get a special thank you to all of the sponsors. [applause] before we begin, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your cameras. We will have time at the end for questions and answers and ask that you use the microphone thats over here to ask your questions when that time comes but please welcome amy stanley and deborah cohen. [applause] its great to be here and wonderful to be here talking about this book. If you pick up a amy stanleys stranger, you can smell the tofu ...

Its great to be here. And its wonderful to be talking about these books. And if you pick up amy stanlys stranger in the shoguns city you can smell the lamenting you can hear the cook of the abacus in the shop. You can yoeven feel the chill of the japanese snow country. This is one of the most evocative and gorgeously written examples of the historians craft you will read. In this marvelous book amy tells the story of tsuneno, a frustrated, stubborn thrice married japanese woman in the early part of the 19th century runs off to the big city of edo, the predecessor city to todays tokyo. This is ...