Description
Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mount Doom. In sharp, lush prose, Picking Bones from Ash - by Marie Mutsuki Mockett - examines the power and limitations of female talent in our globalized world.
Product Details
| Publisher | Graywolf Press |
| Publish Date | February 01, 2011 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781555975760 |
| Dimensions | 8.3 X 142.8 X 22.4 mm | 0.8 pounds |
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Reviews
“A book of intelligence and heart.” —AMY TAN
“Deeply preoccupied with girls, talent, and power.” —MAUD NEWTON
“The best elements of a mystery story, ghost story, magical realism and the complex difficulties in deciding what is ‘best' for our elders and offspring.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“[Picking Bones from Ash], so firmly anchored in a sensuous reality, veers into a dream world. A reader has the sense that even the author was driven by her most powerful character: the original mother, raising her daughter alone, shunned by villagers, forced to make decisions that haunt her descendants.” —Los Angeles Times
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