Louis Lowry's new book is inspired by an old home movie of her as a child playing on the beach, with a ship in the distance. She later learned it was the USS Arizona — which sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
is about two pivotal moments in history: The attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Hiroshima and the lives that were lost or forever altered by those events.
When she showed that home movie to a friend who was also a Navy captain, he immediately identified the ship as the USS Arizona, the vessel that was bombed during the Pearl Harbor attack. When his agent approached him with Lowry's manuscript, he says his initial reaction was: I can't do this. But he also felt he couldn't say no — not just because he wanted the opportunity to work with Lowry, but also"because of how powerful the writing was.""I've written many lighthearted books and this is a book that deals with loss, with grief. That alone, I think, is intimidating," she says.
"They were haunting images," Pak says."Definitely took me to another time and place. ... They're recordings of another time, this time maybe that's slowly fading. I think a bit of that sadness or thoughtfulness carries through those pictures."In researching for the book, Lowry dug into the stories of the young men who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor.
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