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Here from her New York City home is novelist Marie Mutsuki Mockett with one of the most praised debuts of the year, Picking Bones from Ash (Graywolf). Set in a small Japanese mountain town in the 1950s and then a generation later in California, with other places along the way, this is "a book of intelligence and heart. As Mockett reveals, the ghosts of our mothers are always within us." - Amy Tan. "In Marie Mockett's first novel—which ranges in confident and lovely prose from a mountain town in mid-century Japan to an antiques business in contemporary San Francisco—temples, ghosts, and oni demons aren't inert markers of exoticism: they're embedded in a lived web of human relationships and everyday tasks. Beginning in a world as solid as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Picking Bones from Ash takes the reader down the rabbit-hole as matter-of-factly as Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. This wiry and delicate novel, as grounded as it is surreal, goes down like a tall glass of water. Except it's spiked ... you will be haunted until you finish this book." - Ellis Avery.
