A conversation with Karen Hill Anton – journalist, writer, and novelist who has resided in Japan for almost 50 years, in 2020 published her riveting memoir The View From Breast Pocket Mountain and recently published her first novel A Thousand Graces about a young Japanese woman. Hill Anton shares stories from her life "unplanned but well lived", including moving on from tragedy, creating a joyful place in the Japanese countryside, her "infamous third drawer" full of unpublished manuscripts, and enjoying mealtimes with good company, wine and music.