Liane Grun­berg Wak­abayashi, raised in New York City, arrived in Tokyo in the late 1980s as a writer and left thir­ty years lat­er as an artist with her two teenage chil­dren when Israel tugged at her heart­strings. Excerpts and themes from this mem­oir have appeared on Chabad​.org, and in The Jew­ish For­ward, Tablet, Asian Jew­ish Life Mag­a­zine, The Japan Times, and The Jerusalem Post Mag­a­zine.