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WHERE THE DEAD PAUSE, AND THE JAPANESE SAY GOODBYE: A Journey.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. As Japan mourned thousands of people lost in the disaster, she also grieved for her American father, who had died unexpectedly. "Marie Mockett has taken the most spectacular catastrophe of our era and used it to teach us astonishing things about faith, perseverance, and the mysteries of the soul. Her journey through personal grief and the devastation of Japan after the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster brings us into a sacred space." (Luis Alberto Urrea). SIGNED on the title page. xii, 316 pp.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 88845
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