Skivvy Girl: The Love of a Post WWII Japanese Pleasure Girl reveals the sordid life of a young prostitute in graphic detail: the loss of her virginity to a drunken brute, the physical abuse by sadistic men who view her, not as human being, but as an object existing solely for the their pleasure. This novel tells with seamless authenticity and brutal realism the life of Japan's young post war prostitutes, known as "skivvy girls" in military jargon, as seen in the composite protagonist, Matsuyama Yoshiko. Her story begins in a tiny farming community in 1945, when as a seventeen-year-old girl...

After being driven from tent camping by mobile campers with gasoline generators, the Mercer family bought acreage on Great North Mountain near Winchester, VA and built a cabin. The property once the hunting grounds of the Shawnee Indians became their refuge where they might commune with nature and rejuvenate their inner sense of selfsufficiency in the solitude of a mountaintop site.