Hiroshima in the Morning by Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko

Hiroshima in the Morning

2010 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn June 2001, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima...
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Hiroshima in the Morning by Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko

Hiroshima in the Morning

$38.38
Hiroshima in the Morning by Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko

Hiroshima in the Morning

$38.38
Author: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2010 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

In June 2001, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young boys, she was encouraged to go by her husband, who quickly became disenchanted by her absence.

It is her first solo life adventure, immediately exhilarating for her, but her research starts off badly. Interviews with the hibakusha feel rehearsed, and the survivors reveal little beyond published accounts. Then the attacks on September 11 change everything. The survivors' carefully constructed memories are shattered, causing them to relive their agonizing experiences and to open up to Rizzuto in astonishing ways.

Separated from family and country while the world seems to fall apart, Rizzuto's marriage begins to crumble as she wrestles with her ambivalence about being a wife and mother. Woven into the story of her own awakening are the stories of Hiroshima in the survivors' own words. The parallel narratives explore the role of memory in our lives and show how memory is not history but a story we tell ourselves to explain who we are.



Author: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Publisher: Feminist Press
Published: 09/14/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.54w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781558616677


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 10/17/2010

About the Author
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's highly acclaimed first novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000, and was praised by the New York Times as "ambitious, lyrical, and intriguing." She is a recipient of the US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which inspired her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning; she is also the associate editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City; and she is a faculty member in the MFA in creative writing program at Goddard College where she teaches fiction and nonfiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in journals and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and the Crab Creek Review, and in anthologies including Mothers Who Think, Because I Said So, and Topography of War. Rizzuto is half-Japanese/half-Caucasian. She grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii and now lives in Brooklyn.

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