Yesterday Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, a good and wise friend, wrote to say that Hiroshima in the Morning: A Memory, will be published by the Feminist Press in September 2010 in the big book fall of their 40th anniversary year.
Hiroshima is Reiko's book, a book about being a daughter, a mother, and a wife during an almost year of travel. In 2001, Reiko, a New Yorker who had grown up in Hawaii, spent eight months in Japan interviewing the survivors of atomic bombings. She was away from her husband and children during the 911 attacks. That year away, she has written, on her web site, "fueled a new way of thinking about memory and truth and narrative," and Hiroshima is the book that has emerged from all that thinking. I've had the pleasure of reading this book throughout its incantation and making, and I am overjoyed for her that the Feminist Press will release it into the world.
Congratulations, dear Reiko.
That sounds like a powerful book.
Congratulations, Reiko!
Congratulations! That's very cool.
Thank you everyone. And thank you Beth. It's exciting - a little nerve-wracking! I'll let you know more as it happens.
I'm looking forward to reading it.
I will also look forward to reading this. Thank you for telling us about it.
(Very nice photo, too.)
This is a great site you have here. It's pretty funny. I have a humor blog as well and I'd like to exchange links with you. This will spread some traffic around between us. Let me know if this is cool.
Jason
http://www.hilariousheadlines.com/talk