Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu
Prize Introducing 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 Ito
explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced
by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters
in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator
shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different
cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about
what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been
described as a "shaman of poetry" because of her skill in allowing
the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her
semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from
Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result
is a generic chimera-part poetry, part prose, part epic-a unique,
transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a
series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo,
who helps to remove the "thorns" of human suffering.
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