Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
Thoughts 
by Richard Lloyd Parry, 2017, 7 hours 47 min, 295 HC
Narrated by Simon Vance
Challenge: What’s in a Name: Natural Disaster category
Genre/Theme: Nonfiction / Japan Tsunami March 2011
Type/Source: Audiobook / Audible
What It’s About: This story focuses most on a school that suffered higher than typical casualties for a tsunami in Japan. This was no ordinary tsunami, but it is obvious that the school administrators were caught off-guard and were ill-prepared. This is such a sad sad look into how humans grieve, blame, deal with their demons, and move on, if that is accurate. It’s not. The ghosts emerge in the very last section and it is fascinating!
Thoughts: A heartening and disheartening look at a culture, a community, politics – it’s ALL politics!, and connectedness. Of being human against and with the forces of nature. I can’t say it was enjoyable, but I’m glad to have read this.
Rating: Four slices of pie. No pie mentioned, though it is possible that a Japanese style of pastry that might fit my loose definition of “What is Pie?” was mentioned and I’m just ignorant of it.
“An easing of walls
A shuddering of souls
a pebble loosens, falls.
In the room, alone – it has
It begins, and then is gone
ripples outlast stone
Rain, smell, stirs the heart
Nostrils flare, a breath
We wait for something to start.”
-Anthony Thwaite?
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