"The Outsider" is a unique, multifaceted look at post-World War II Japan through the eyes of Sarah Berman, a six-year-old refugee who arrives in Tokyo from communist occupied Shanghai. The book traces her coming of age in a war torn confused Japan beset by the legacy of Japan's military experience. She desperately wants to be accepted in her Japanese world as her family settles on a rural Japanese nobleman's estate outside of a demolished Tokyo.

Follow Sarah's emotional journey as she tries to befriend the Japanese servants living on the estate and the homeless children living in the...