Jun must try to please both his Japanese and American fans, and while he is adored by moviegoers-especially women-he’s despised by public officials, who see him as a threat to American power and racial purity. The Age of Dreaming alternates between the 1960s and the height of the silent film era, telling the story of a man caught between worlds. But what Jun ultimately discovers is far more complex and personal than even he could have imagined. And Ashley Bennett Tyler, the British director whose guiding hand turns Jun into a star. Hanako Minatoya, the elegant actress and playwright who serves as Jun’s inspiration and foil. Nora Minton Niles, the dreamy, childlike teenage star controlled by her ambitious mother. Louis who becomes a major Hollywood diva. In the process, he recounts the lives of several other figures from the silent film era: Elizabeth Banks, the working-class girl from St. Spurred on by his fear of a potential “misunderstanding,” Jun begins to track down his surviving acquaintances from his years as Perennial Pictures’ greatest star. Like the changing social and racial tides in California-and the unsolved murder of his favorite director. But he begins to worry that someone might delve too deeply into the past and uncover the events that abruptly ended his career in 1922. When Bellinger reveals that he has written a screenplay with Nakayama in mind, Jun is intrigued by the possibility of returning to movies. By 1964, he is living in complete obscurity, until a young writer, Nick Bellinger, tracks him down for an interview. Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood. Nina lives in Northeast Los Angeles with her spouse and their dogs.In 1960s L.A., a Japanese American former silent film star investigates a mystery from his dark past in this novel by the author of Southland.
She has also been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Occidental College, and Pitzer College. Nina is executive vice president and chief operating officer of a large nonprofit organization serving children affected by violence and poverty in Central and South Los Angeles. Kennedy and poet and former National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia, of the college textbook Literature for Life: A Thematic Introduction to Reading and Writing. Nina’s books are widely taught and have been selected for numerous “Campus Reads” and “Community Reads” programs, as well as for many book clubs. on the way home from work and keep plowing through until you’ve turned the last page at 3 a.m. Her first book, The Necessary Hunger, was described by Time magazine as “the kind of irresistible read you start on the subway at 6 p.m. Nina Revoyr was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a white American father, and grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles.
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