WRITER'S DIGEST, 31st Annual Self-Published Book First Place Award in Mainstream/Literary Fiction
Little Bird and the Tiger is embedded within Japan's transition to modernity, its outburst into Asia, much like America's contemporaneous 'manifest destiny.' The story shifts between two perspectives, those of Tachibana Hideo and Umezawa Tozaburo. Tachibana, an orphaned young woman who discovers martial arts as a child, wandering...