Ash

Caitlin Ober is back in Japan, teaching English in Kyushu. Some 15 years ago, as a little girl, Caitlin lived in Kyoto, but a tragic accident drove her and her family back to America. Now guilt obscures her path, just as ashfall from a nearby volcano covers Kagoshima in dust. In a garden Caitlin meets a teenage half-Japanese girl, Naomi, who may be someone Caitlin can save this time around. Together the two travel to Kyoto during O-Bon, the festival when the dead return. Amid bonfires, temple grounds, and ghostly memories, Caitlin bravely embraces her future. Ash is a bittersweet novel of redemptive beauty, of startling images and alluring details.

Holly Thompson lives in Kamakura and writes frequently about Japan. This is her first novel.

• Author
• Holly Thompson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 292

• Publisher
• Stone Bridge Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781880656655

• Genres
• fiction, asia, japan

• Release date
• 2001