Potato in a Rice Bowl

In the memoir Potato in a Rice Bowl, Peggy Keener shares her wacky misadventures as a sincere—though misguided—Minnesota housewife struggling to create normalcy for her family while living in Japan during the 1960s. Through charming vignettes, Peggy takes a look back at her bewildering foray into the Japanese culture after her husband accepts a military assignment in a country thousands of miles away from the small prairie town of Austin, Minnesota, where she was born and raised. The mother...