By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows a family’s tenacity in the face of relationships fractured by language and distance.
By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows a family’s tenacity in the face of relationships fractured by language and distance.
Gen Del Raye is a translator, fiction writer, and poet and was trained as an oceanographer. He was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, and lives in Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, Best Small Fictions 2017, and Best New Poets 2019, among others. He is the winner of the Force Majeure Flash Contest, Up North Poetry Prize, and Great Midwest Poetry Contest and was awarded a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.
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1 Hideto, in Motion and at Rest Hideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001 My Mother Takes Me to a Public Bath Yukari Kneeling in My Mother’s Garden, 1994 Chie and George, 2015 Half-Blind My Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown 2 The Mystery of Animal Grief Nishina Sekio in a Tunnel Alone Preparations, 2015 Home Burial Housefire Suicide Drills, 1945 The Grandma Invasion We Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of Grace Nishina Sekio in a Broken Machine Harvest Mouse Hack Science A Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its Face Synonyms for Climate Change Boundless Deep My Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the Sea Nishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams 3 My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980 Or Go Further Back Elastico What My Mother Doesn’t Say The Failings of Our Fathers Incredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and Again Acknowledgments Selected Sources
1 Hideto, in Motion and at Rest Hideto Worn Down in Gainesville, 2001 My Mother Takes Me to a Public Bath Yukari Kneeling in My Mother’s Garden, 1994 Chie and George, 2015 Half-Blind My Father Will Not Admit He Has Become a Clown 2 The Mystery of Animal Grief Nishina Sekio in a Tunnel Alone Preparations, 2015 Home Burial Housefire Suicide Drills, 1945 The Grandma Invasion We Are a Woman Bombed / A Picture of Grace Nishina Sekio in a Broken Machine Harvest Mouse Hack Science A Shark Is an Animal That Blushes When You Touch Its Face Synonyms for Climate Change Boundless Deep My Grandmother Stops Some Nights on Her Way to the Outhouse to Watch a Ghost Climb Down to the Sea Nishina Sekio Imprisoned in Dreams 3 My Father and Shigenobu Fusako in the Hallway of the Hotel New Otani, 1980 Or Go Further Back Elastico What My Mother Doesn’t Say The Failings of Our Fathers Incredible Lifelike Whale Comes Up for Air, Again and Again Acknowledgments Selected Sources
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