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February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0440241545
EAN: 9780440241546
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In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another
Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and
sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns
neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is
dead. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the
men he once hired by the day. For Mas, a life of sin is
catching up to him. And now bachi—the spirit of
retribution—is knocking on his door. It begins when a stranger comes around, asking questions
about a nurseryman who once lived in Hiroshima, a man known
as Joji Haneda. By the end of the summer, Joji will be dead
and Mas’s own life will be in danger. For while Mas was
building a life on the edge of the American dream, he has
kept powerful secrets: about three friends long ago, about
two lives entwined, and about what really happened when the
bomb fell on Hiroshima in August 1945. A spellbinding mystery played out from war-torn Japan to the
rich tidewaters of L.A.’s multicultural landscape, this
stunning debut novel weaves a powerful tale of family,
loyalty, and the price of both survival and forgiveness.
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