Blog: largehearted boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Marie Mutsuki Mockett's novel Picking Bones from Ash tells the tale of three generations of Japanese woman in a voice so authentic and eloquent it is hard to believe this is Mockett's first novel. The Feminist Review wrote of the book: "If you've read Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter, it's easy to compare the two novels. Both feature complex and often painful relationships [...]