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Four decades have passed since Amaterasu Takahashi lost her daughter and grandson in Nagasaki's atomic destruction. Now an octogenarian widow living in Philadelphia, she's shocked by the arrival of a disfigured stranger claiming to be that grandson. He brings letters from the past, as well as truths Ama kept buried most of her life. Reliving difficult memories—youthful indiscretions, desperate love affairs, estrangement from her now dead daughter—Ama resists seeing wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More