Tracy SlaterTracy Slater is a Jewish American writer from Boston, based in her husband's country of Japan. Her first book, the mixed-marriage memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Grat New Writers selection and one of PopSugar's best books of 2015. Slater has published work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time magazine's Made by History, and more. She taught writing for over ten years in Boston-area universities and in men's and women's prisons throughout Massachusetts. She is the recipient of PEN New England's Friend to Writers Award and holds a PhD in English and American literature from Brandeis University. Read More Read Less