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Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Four—Great Balls of Fire
Naomi Hirahara
Now that all the miscellaneous orange packages were out of my client’s storage container, I saw something large wrapped in blue. I removed some red packages that were resting on top of it and place them in one corner of the container. The blue package was long and felt ...

Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Four—Great Balls of Fire
Naomi Hirahara
Now that all the miscellaneous orange packages were out of my client’s storage container, I saw something large wrapped in blue. I removed some red packages that were resting on top of it and place them in one corner of the container. The blue package was long and felt ...

Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Four—Great Balls of Fire
Naomi Hirahara
Now that all the miscellaneous orange packages were out of my client’s storage container, I saw something large wrapped in blue. I removed some red packages that were resting on top of it and place them in one corner of the container. The blue package was long and felt ...

Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Four—Great Balls of Fire
Naomi Hirahara
Now that all the miscellaneous orange packages were out of my client’s storage container, I saw something large wrapped in blue. I removed some red packages that were resting on top of it and place them in one corner of the container. The blue package was long and felt ...

Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Three—The Curse of Mottainai II
Naomi Hirahara
Clement of the Japanese American museum called me back an hour later. His hunch was right: the photos and the name plate in the mystery storage unit were connected to this Tokko Kinjo at a retirement home in Boyle Heights. He had even touched base with Tokko’s eldest son ...

Ten Days of Cleanup
Chapter Two—The Curse of Mottainai I
Naomi Hirahara
While many post-World War II Japanese families were all about discarding old tansu and kimono, my mother closely held to the value of mottainai, that it was a disgrace to throw something away before its time. In other words, as long as an object had not completely disintegrated, she was ...

Silk
Chapter Twelve—A Japanese Girl
Naomi Hirahara
For the past two days, Okei’s teeth chattered, all day and all night. It was as if a spirit had entered her body and she had no control over it.

Silk
Chapter Eleven—In the Dark Night
Naomi Hirahara
The sounds of the explosions seemed to get louder every day. Kintaro felt his whole body shake as the booms seemed close to shattering his ear drums.