The Crane WifeThe Crane Wife

The Crane Wife was selected from more than eight hundred entries. This brilliant debut volume explores and celebrates the author_s Japanese heritage in the great Northwest. From "Because You Showed Me a Piece of Barbed Wire" Because you showed me a piece of barbed wire that had lain on the road beside a lone sign marking all that remained of -barracks, rowed and eclipsed by the shadow of Heart Mountain, I thought of my mother beginning her tour of Japan. What would she say if she saw me with a piece of her past cupped in her hand? Sharon Hashimoto is a writing instructor at Highline Community College in Midway, Washington.