Hiroshima in the Morning

English

ISBN: 1558616675

EAN: 9781558616677

Category: Travel / Asia / Japan/History / Military / Nuclear Warfare/Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies/History / Asia / Japan/Biography & Autobiography / General/Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists/

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Release Date: 09/30/2010

Synopsis: In this National Book Critics Award finalist memoir, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto wrestles with the most personal and epic issues of our time. In June 2001 she travels to Hiroshima to interview survivors of the atomic bomb, while her husband and two young sons remain in New York. But initial interviews feel rehearsed, and the survivors reveal little beyond already published accounts. Then September 11 changes everything. The vulnerability exposed by the attacks shatters the survivors carefully constructed narratives. They open up to Rizzuto in astonishing ways, describing in detail their agonizing experiences. Separated from family as her world seems to be falling apart, Rizzuto sees her marriage begin to crumble as she questions her role as a wife and mother. The parallel narratives of Hiroshima in the survivors own words, and of Rizzutos personal awakening, show memory not as history, but as a story we tell ourselves to explain who we are. Rahna Reiko Rizzutos highly acclaimed first novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000. She is a faculty member in the MFA in creative writing program at Goddard College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

Hiroshima in the Morning

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.25 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 10.51 oz

Pages: 320