Main Base Book Club

Please join us at #61 Sakura Heights (Katherine Wessbecher's house). This month's books are Japanese historical fiction that takes place in the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868): Flame in the Mist & Smoke in the Sun by Renee Ahdieh. We will be providing a Japanese themed grazing board please bring your favorite/ most exotic beverage to our Chuhai &/or Japanese non-alcoholic beverage (Pacari Sweat, Cherry Juice, Milk Tea, etc) tasting.

The summary: 

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Throne of Glass.

The daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has long known her place—she may be an accomplished alchemist, whose cunning rivals that of her brother Kenshin, but because she is not a boy, her future has always been out of her hands. At just seventeen years old, Mariko…