Love is Thicker Than Forget

About Love is Thicker Than Forget

“A powerful evocation of post-war Tokyo, Japan’s rebirth during the American occupation under General MacArthur, and the endurance of the human heart.” The Japanese-American Friendship Society.

With war between the U.S. and Imperial Japan looming in the fall of 1941, Colton Hancock, who grew up in Tokyo, returns to the U.S., reluctantly leaving his Japanese lover, Yasuko, an independent, free-thinking woman, behind. During the war, he serves as an interpreter in the interrogation of Japanese prisoners. Soon after Japan’s surrender in September of 1945, he flies into war-ravaged Tokyo as an army lieutenant, hoping to pick up where he has left off with Yasuko, but the course of their romance does not continue as smoothly as either could have imagined. This tersely written love story has as its setting the destruction of much of Tokyo by B-29s, the occupation of the country by American GIs, the complexities of Japanese society, and a thriving black market, as the two lovers overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges in their effort to reunite. The title, Love is Thicker than Forget, is taken from a poem by one of the twentieth century’s most renowned poets, E. E. Cummings.

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James Roth, a writer of fiction and nonfiction, has had work published in several international magazines and journals, including New Contrast (South Africa), The Wise Owl (India), Mystery Quarterly (The U.S.), The Bombay Review (U.S.) and Litro (The U.K.). His first novel, The Opium Addict, a literary mystery set in Meiji-era Japan, is now out, as is a novella, Love is Thicker than Forget, set in postwar Tokyo. He has traveled widely in Southeast Asia and has lived in Japan, China, Jordan, South Africa, and Zimbabwe but likes to say he was "Made in Japan." His parents lived there during the American occupation but he was, to his and his mother's lasting regret, born in an American military hospital in the U.S.