{"product_id":"grave-on-the-wall-the","title":"Grave on the Wall, The","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest of 2019: Nonfiction - \u003cem\u003eEntropy Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life--child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen--mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the twentieth century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories. ... It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midori's life come full circle ... In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb.--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making.--\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Tei Yamashita\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eLetters to Memory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo's \u003cem\u003ePedro P ramo\u003c\/em\u003e, Brandon Shimoda's \u003cem\u003eThe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate.--\u003cstrong\u003eMyriam Gurba\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of Mean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief--its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence--a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson.--\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Yang\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHey, Marfa: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarkable exploration of how citizenship is forged by the brutal US imperial forces--through slave labor, forced detention, indiscriminate bombing, historical amnesia and wall. If someone asked me, Where are you from? I would answer, From T\u003cem\u003ehe Grave on the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e.--\u003cstrong\u003eDon Mee Choi, \u003c\/strong\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eHardly War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShimoda intercedes into the absences, \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326118871140,"sku":"9780872867901","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/grave-on-the-wall-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}