Gifted Hands: Sainō No Aru Te finished. Now working on part II.

Gifted Hands: Sainō no aru te my latest novel is now in print and e-book. I consider it part I of the story. I'm now writing the second half of the story. No working title yet. Charlie Kelly has his spousal visa and can paint, display and sell his works in Japan. Keiko is organizing a concert tour that begins in Nagasaki and finishes in Denver that will include Charlie's daughter Jane and her Native American Flute teacher Carlos Tao from Santa Fe. 

Both Gifted Hands: Sainō no aru te and the second volume are stand alone novels but as in most novels where characters carry over from one novel to the other, there is a familiarity of the characters if one has read the preceeding book.

Again the setting is primarily in Nagasaki and Isahaya Japan. Gifted Hands left off in December. Part II takes up as spring is breaking the hold of the Kyushu winter. The climate of Southern Kyushu is similar to the Willamette Valley of Oregon or much of the Southern United States with a long spring beginning in early March lasting through a beautiful May and ending with hot monsoon rainy season seguwaying