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(0)Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While caring for her Japanese mother, an unnamed narrator, preoccupied with her mother?s garden, embarks on a torrid affair with an arborist equally fascinated by it and as she becomes obsessed with the awakening of her own body, she begins to see her mother?s illness as part of a natural order.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate voyage into Japanese culture and spirituality, culminating in one of Japan's most sacred places. Marie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. At the same time, Mockett grieved for her American father, who had died unexpectedly. As Japan mourned thousands...
