Book description
2024 International Rubery Book Awards Winner | 2023 American Writing Awards Finalist | 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist | 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist
Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked The Heron Catchers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A complex and unusual love story set in contemporary Japan, highly evocative of life there, and sensitively portraying relationships between westerners and Japanese. I find Joiner's style reminiscent of the classic Japanese authors, particularly Kawabata, Soseki, and Tanizaki. A somewhat hidden gem of a book.
If you love The Heron Catchers...
Aggressor
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Want books like The Heron Catchers?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 7 books like The Heron Catchers.
📚 If you like The Heron Catchers, you might also like...
Old Man Country
This book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom as he narrates encounters with 12 distinguished American men over 80, including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world’s most famous heart surgeon.
In these and other intimate conversations, the book…
Lane and the Inventor
A grumpy-sunshine, slow-burn, sweet-and-steamy romance set in wild and beautiful small-town Colorado. Lane Gravers is a wanderer, adventurer, yoga instructor, and social butterfly when she meets reserved, quiet, pensive Logan Hickory, a loner inventor with a painful past.
Dive into this small-town, steamy romance between two opposites who find love…