Scarritt-Bennett Center will host author Margery L. Mayer as she speaks about and signs her new book, Repairers of the Breach: Memoirs of a Missionary - Nagasaki, Japan 1948-1951.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase. Light refreshments will be served. The event will begin at 3 p.m., and Mayer will speak at 3:30 p.m.

ABOUT Repairers of the Breach:
Three years after graduating from college and the end of World War II, Margery Mayer - now a resident of Brentwood, Tenn. - joined a group of 50 young people sent to Japan by the Methodist Church in an effort called "The Fellowship of Reconstruction." The purpose was to live for three years with young Japanese and work toward tearing down the wall of fear, hate and hostility that had grown between Japan and the U.S., and to rebuild a new world of peace.

Mayer was sent to Kwassui Girls School in Nagasaki, where she had many discussions with her students about Christianity and democracy. Repairers of the Breach is the story of their lives together -- Japanese students and a young American missionary -- the impact it had on each, and the bonding that took place as they worked toward a new world of peace.