Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey | 
A fascinating and moving look at Japanese culture and spirituality in relation to grief following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Really good.
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#TBRtemptation I saw this on the shelves of an #indie bookstore this week. It gets great reviews and involves Japan's prefecture Fukushima. You know that area b/c of the tsunami and nuclear plant. We know it because it's where my husband's ancestral home lies.
pickAs a biracial American with Japanese heritage, I appreciate Marie Mutsuki Mockett's insightful memoir. Her geographic journey across her mother's home country Japan after the Fukushima nuclear disaster is also a spiritual journey in which she explores death rituals in Japanese religion and culture as a way of coming to terms with her own grief. Mockett's beautifully articulate observations enable me to appreciate Japan in greater depth.
Now reading - I have a feeling this is gonna tear me up inside...
Just started this now. I like her thoughtful style and her family's connection with Zen temple and Tohoku gives a new calm perspective from the extremes of Japan analysis. Aside from very minor quibble overall, she drew me in and I've lived in Japan years.
pickThis is the kind of book where you ask pretty please to stay in the car to read while your partner does the grocery shopping. It's solid and stoic and excellent.
