I had to read this book for Women’s Literature class.
I ended up really liking it. It’s a memoir written out of what
happens when the author gets a grant to go to Japan for 6 months to do
research and write about the personal accounts of the aftermath of the
atomic bombing of Hiroshima. What she ends up learning is more than she
ever bargained for. She learns more about herself than any of the people
she interviews and their stories become interwoven with her story and
that of her ailing mother, a woman who as a very young girl was in one
of the US internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What this book ends up being is an intimate look into the author’s journey of self-discovery.
(read Nov. 2011)
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