The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda: A Novel

As he stumbles through an afterlife he never believed in, scientist Kenzaboro Tsuruda must make sense of his life and confront his family's secrets in order to save his ancestors from becoming Hungry Ghosts-a Buddhist state of purgatory. Meanwhile, his daughter, wife, and sister-in-law struggle with their own loss and take turns sharing their point of view to gradually reveal their family's shameful history-including when, during WWII, Kenzaboro sent his wife, Satsuki, to live with family n...