"Kirkus" Best Books of the Year - "Kansas City Star" Best Books
of the Year
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much
of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the
earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness,
listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration
in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an
eloquent narrative that blends strong reportage, poetic
observation, and deeply felt reflection, she takes us into the
upside-down world of northeastern Japan, where nothing is certain
and where the boundaries between living and dying have been erased
by water.
The stories of rice farmers, monks, and wanderers; of fishermen who
drove their boats up the steep wall of the wave; and of an
eighty-four-year-old geisha who survived the tsunami to hand down a
song that only she still remembered are both harrowing and
inspirational. Facing death, facing life, and coming to terms with
impermanence are equally compelling in a landscape of surreal
desolation, as the ghostly specter of Fukushima Daiichi, the
nuclear power complex, spews radiation into the ocean and air.
"Facing the Wave" is a testament to the buoyancy, spirit, humor,
and strong-mindedness of those who must find their way in a
suddenly shattered world.
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