The Afterlife is Letting Go

Chosen one of Booklist's Top Ten History Books of the Year! Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction "The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award–winning The Grave on the Wall."— Matt Seidel, Publishers Weekly's "Big Indie Books" "Both personal and choral, The Afterlife is Letting Go is deeply felt, precise, and as generous in its insights as it is unsparing in its