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My Pledge to Hiroshima: Elizabeth’s Story
My Pledge to Hiroshima: Elizabeth’s Story is a historical novel recounting the relationship of biracial Dr. Elizabeth Kingsley and her daughter Kiyomi both searching for their identities in Japan and United States, spanning World War II and the Vietnam Era.
The novel is based on the true story of the author’s mother, Dr. Elizabeth Kingsley, daughter of the British consul general of Japan and a Japanese heiress. Elizabeth’s “outsider” identity is a both a blessing and a curse.
Although Japanese locals consider her a “half breed,” her “foreigner” status lands her a job with the United States Nuclear Radiation Research Center* in Hiroshima. Elizabeth is shocked to realize the center’s mission is to make the atomic bomb survivors “case studies” for future war efforts—not to treat their afflictions. She quits and returns to Tokyo, where she provides for her family as a doctor in war-torn Japan.