Reader recommendation: Picking Bones from Ash
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Patricia L鈥檋errou, Shipman, Va.
Picking Bones from Ash, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett, is a wonderful first novel. Quite unusual and written beautifully, it is set primarily in Japan and depicts the interpersonal struggles of two generations of mother and daughter.