Scattered All Over the Earth ceramics where parents routinely left their

where parents routinely left their children home

What she doesn’t see is her mother

One by one

quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound

the soldier who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes

Scattered All Over the Earth ceramics where parents routinely left theirA mind expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not too distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as the land of sushi. Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan Scandinavian): homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I