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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu PrizeIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Itoexplores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a womancaring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her agingparents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these twostarkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrativeabout what it means to live and die in a globalized society.Ito has been described as a shaman of poetry because ofher skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enrichesher semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanesefolklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a genericchimerapart poetry, part prose, part epica unique, transnational, polyvocalmode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated withthe Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the thorns of human suffering.
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