The Memoir of Jake Weedsong
This novel "reminds us all that men do not all live lives of quiet desperation, that in fact some live lives of quiet joy. This is a quiet book that through its celebration of the sensual depicts a world peopled with characters we would all like to share a meal with, yet it speaks loudly of two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of the post-modern world, Hate and Ignorance... Through the words of his character Jake Weedsong and Jake's charming wife, Etsuko, Schell offers us a chance to think about how kind people, without being self-righteous, can stand up against these unrelenting foes of civilization."
--H. Lee Barnes, When We Walked above the Clouds