![]() ![]() ![]() Picking Bones from Ash explores the struggles women face in accepting their talents, and asks what happens when mothers and daughters dare to question the debt owed each other. Rumi has always believed her mother to be dead, but when Rumi begins to see a ghost, she wonders: Is this the spirit of her mother? If so, what happened to Satomi? Years later, Satomis choices echo in the life of her American daughter, Rumi, a gifted authenticator of Asian antiques. Eventually, Satomi is pushed to make a drastic decision in order to begin her life anew. But when her mothers growing ambition tests this delicate social balance, Satomis gift is not enough to protect them. Satomis success in piano competitions has always won respect, saving her and her mother from complete ostracism. No one knows who fathered eleven-year-old Satomi, and the women of her 1950s Japanese mountain town find her mothers restless sensuality a threat. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably and masterfully talented. My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. ![]() ![]() Three generations of women intersect in this evocative debut novel ![]()
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