The Culling Times

A sweeping novel set between 1938 and 2011, this multi-generational story follows the history of one Japanese family as they live through World War II, a host of family dramas, and, finally, the Fukushima disaster. This deeply felt, formally inventive, ambitious novel pulls heavily from the author's own life, including the death of her famous father, the writer Osamu Dazai.

The Culling Times is a multi-generational saga of the Kitamura and Komori families told through a complex series of fla...