![]() ![]() 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 familys 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. Book Synopsis As he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make sense of his life and confront his familys secrets in order to save his ancestors from bing Hungry Ghosts-a Buddhist state of purgatory. ![]() About the Book During the Obon holiday, when the living celebrate their dead, Kenzaburo Tsuruda-an atheist Japanese scientist who has just woken up in an afterlife he never believed in-must reckon with his lifes decisions in order to save his familys ancestors from spending an eternity exiled as tortured, hungry ghosts. ![]()
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