KAZUKO: My Sweet Childhood Till the Bomb Fell

Mother is ninety-six or ninety-seven, we're not sure and there's no one around to set us straight. The reality of her age seems to have slipped into the dustbin of time. She now resides at the Active Life Shukugawa, a well-run nursing home outside of Ashiya, Japan. I fl y from Newark three or four times a year taking turns with my three brothers visiting.
She's well cared for, is lively, and as reported by the staff, is the center of the home's social life. She sings a lot. Unhappily she is...