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Book Title

Picking Bones from Ash

Subtitle
A Novel
Author 1
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Body
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 examines the power and limitations of female talent in our globalized world.

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List Price
$15.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-576-0
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
320
Trim Size
Trim Size
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Keynote
“As Mockett reveals, the ghosts of our mothers are always within us.”—Amy Tan

About the Author

Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Credit: Alfie Goodrich
Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of a previous novel, Picking Bones from Ash, and two books of nonfiction, American Harvest, which won the Nebraska Book Award, and Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award.

http://www.mariemockett.com/
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Praise

  • “Solid and graceful. . . . Mockett combines 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.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  • “Mockett succeeds where many others fail: making the reader care.”—Publishers Weekly
  • “Deeply preoccupied with girls, talent, and power.”—Maud Newton
  • “A voice so authentic and eloquent it is hard to believe this is Mockett’s first novel.”—largehearted boy
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