The Difficult Years of Toshi Ozawa

From 2025 Nebraska Book Award Winner for best fiction - D. D. DavenportToshi Ozawa has matured. He is reaching middle age with a family to care for. Charcoal shortages at the iron foundry have forced him to find work elsewhere. What began as a stopgap gig in a fishing boat and a side job providing rice to the Osaki Silk Factory, evolve to become the Kamaishi Trading Company.Still deeply in love with Ayami and closely supported by Haruki and his family, their modest success with the Trading Company is overshadowed by a cholera epidemic, highway bandits, and perhaps the worst tsunami in history. Toshi's dream of emigrating to America becomes closer to reality. But not in the way he expected.And a reprehensible figure from the past reemerges.Share their joys and sorrows in Book 2 of the Kamaishi Heritage Series.