Search results for ""author marie mutsuki mockett""
Graywolf Press American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
£23.83
Graywolf Press American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland
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Graywolf Press,U.S. Picking Bones From Ash
A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi lives with her elusive mother in a tiny northern Japanese town. 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. Written in strikingly unusual prose that manages to be simultameously sharp and lush, Picking Bones From Ash examines the power and limitations of female talent in a globalised world.
£15.00
Graywolf Press The Tree Doctor
A startling, erotic novel about the need to balance care for others with care for one's selfWhen the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mother's gardenconvinced it contains a kind of visual puzzleand the dormant cherry tree within it.Caught between tending to an unwell parent and the weight of obligation to her distant daughters and husband, she becomes isolated and unmoored. She soon starts a torrid affair with an arborist who is equally fascinated by her mother's garden, and together they embark on reviving it. Increasingly engrossed by the garden, and by the awakening of her own body, she comes to see her mother''s illness as part of a natural order in which t
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