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Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner
Barbara Jefferson, an American teaching college in Japan, receives a handmade chest bequeathed from her friend and mentor Michi. Inside she discovers bottles of plum wine, each wrapped in pages of carefully hand written Japanese characters. She is convinced that her friend’s history is contained on these pages. Her acquaintance, Seiji, offers to help her translate the writings. What she discovers is a painful web of the consequences of the bombing of Hiroshima. The atomic blast changes the course of Michi’s life and the lives of generations of her family. The bombing’s legacy eventually undermines even Barbara’s relationship with Seiji. The novel Plum Wine gently unfolds providing a lens through which one can begin to perceive the Japanese experience of Hiroshima.
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