As he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make sense of his life and confront his family’s secrets in order to save his ancestors from becoming Hungry Ghosts—a Buddhist state of purgatory. Meanwhile, his daughter, wife, and sister-in-law struggle with their own loss and take turns sharing their point of view to gradually reveal their family’s shameful history—including when, during WWII, Kenzaboro sent his wife, Satsuki, to live with family near Hiroshima, where her rape by his brother resulted in the birth of their only child, Haruna.
Spanning the years during WWII and its horrific ending after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima up to Emperor Hirohito’s death in 1989, The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda paints a beautiful and haunting portrait of ancient and modern Japan as seen through the eyes of one family as they reconcile loss, shame, honor, death, and, finally, redemption.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- A Note From Joe, Beth’s Husband
- 1. Obon The Days of the Dead 1990
- 2. Haruna
- 3. Satsuki
- 4. Tetsuko the visit
- 5. The Last Day of Obon Kenzaburo
- 6. Difficult Women Haruna
- 7. The Wild Boar Obon Visit Tetsuko
- 8. Fox Goddess Satsuki December 1944
- 9. Mother-in-law Satsuki and Reiko (1942)
- 10. Funeral Kenzaburo
- 11. Waiting/Hajiyama Satsuki November 1944
- 12. Tetsuko 1990
- 13. Kenzaburo Yamato
- 14. Gray Hair Haruna
- 15. New Year Satsuki Hajiyama December 1944
- 16. Hidden Things Tetsuko September 1990
- 17. Kenzaburo The House of My Afterlife 1989
- 18. Satsuki Things Left Unsaid Spring and Summer 1945
- 19. Hiroshima Kenzaburo August 12, 1945
- 20. Home Kenzaburo 1945
- 21. Silver Fish Haruna 1990
- 22. Kenzaburo The Final Obon
- 23. Haruna Lighting the Welcome Home Fires
- 24. Kenzaburo The Feast of the Hungry Ghosts
- 25. Satsuki
- Epilogue : Haruna Obon One Year After Satsuki’s Death
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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