Some Divine Wind

SOME DIVINE WIND a rough translation referring to Japanese Kamikaze pilots on Gods wind is the story of Ben an Americanborn young man of mixed parentage whose father was part of a bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mothers village and killed her entire family during World War II Although his father discovers this horrible coincidence when he meets his wife after the war he keeps this realization secret Eventually his father has a breakdown confessing his tragic story forcing Ben to be torn between his love of his parents and internal feelings of betrayal by his own fervent efforts to assimilate