Backstory is the true account of the writing of the historical novel, Asano no Katana (Sword of Asano) by first-time author Gene Brown. Few except the author's closest family and friends knew of the several traumatic events that nearly kept his first book from being published - the heartbreaking loss of his daughter in a terrible motorcycle accident, the alienation of his only grandchild by his former daughter-in-law, the slow, debilitating disease...