Name: Facing the Wave
ISBN: 9780307907318

Gretel Ehrlich

Collects survivors' accounts of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tåohoku coast of northeastern Japan.

A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

Facing the Wave

Cindy Lieberman

Powerful, overlapping vignettes of life (and death) in Japan following the earthquake and its subsequent tsunami and nuclear disaster. Stories of those who move away and those who stay to rebuild; those who search tirelessly for the dead and those who tire of the struggle and take their own lives. A new perspective on sharing local traditions from an affected town’s last Geisha. Some things I had forgotten (the contaminated baby formula deemed safe by the government) or never knew (the animals left to die, the wholesale slaughter of those that didn’t, and the animal rescue groups’ attempts to intervene).

Facing the Wave A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami