My Two Worlds

Book excerpt: The memoirs of Sadie Flemig Bozeman, a British Citizen, born in Burma and raised in China and Japan from 1926 to 1956 before coming to the United States. Sadie provides a enriching story of daily life as a young girl struggling to fit into a different culture absent her father. Raised by a step-mother she enters her teen years in pre-WWII Japan and finds herself fatherless and trapped in Japan during the outbreak of WWII. She provides a glimpse of life in war-torn Japan and the devastation in Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb. Meeting Ernest Flemig, a United States Army Officer, in post-war Japan offers her hope for a life outside of the only life she has known. My Two Worlds is Sadie's reflections on her life in two different cultures and her journey as a child, a young woman, and finally as a mother looking for stability and security for her children. An Afterword by her son provides a heartwarming reconnection to this world she left behind.