Brian Kimmel

Author, educator and musician Brian Kimmel visits the store to discuss his new book, Blue Skies, Troubled Waters. Courage battles despair in this story as seen through the eyes of an American twin girl deported to Indonesia with her family at the start of WWII. Not long after settling in their new home, Japan's forces invade, and the family is imprisoned as civilian prisoners of war.

Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the remarkable true story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is uprooted and [...]