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Marie Mutsuki Mockett





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Marie Mutsuki Mockett is an American novelist and memoirist.

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Mockett was born to a Japanese mother and an American father and grew up speaking English, German and Japanese. Her mother's family owns a Buddhist templeinTohoku Japan, 25 miles from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power reactor.[1] Her father's family owns a wheat farm in Nebraska.[2] Mockett graduated from the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California [3] and Columbia University in 1992.[4] Her novel, Picking Bones from Ash, was published in 2009 and short listed for the Paterson Prize. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, was shortlisted for the PEN Open Award,[5] the Northern California Book Award[6] and was the Barnes a Noble Discover Pick.[7] American Harvest, her third book, follows her travels through the American heartland in the company of evangelical harvesters and examines the rural and urban divide and won the 2020 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction.[8] Her essays have appeared in Elle,[9] The New York Times,[10] and Salon.[11]

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References

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  • ^ "Marie Mutskui Mockett: American Harvest".
  • ^ "Stevenson School Alumni Magazine Spring/Summer 2015".
  • ^ "Bookshelf". Columbia College Today. Fall 2020. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  • ^ "2016 PEN Open Book Award". 6 November 2015.
  • ^ "Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye". www.wwnorton.co.uk.
  • ^ "Discover".
  • ^ "Poetry Flash > programs".
  • ^ Mockett, Marie Mutsuki (2020-05-08). "The Sacred Ritual of Meals with My Mother". Elle. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ Mockett, Marie Mutsuki (15 March 2011). "Opinion | Memories, Washed Away". The New York Times.
  • ^ "Marie Mutsuki Mockett's Articles at Salon.com". www.salon.com.
  • ^ "Everyone's baking bread at home now, and America's wheat doesn't harvest itself". Salon. 2020-04-30. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ Canfield, Kevin (April 2, 2020). "Review: In 'American Harvest,' Marie Mutsuki Mockett ruminates on race, faith and food". Datebook. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ Farwell, Eric (2020-04-07). "Marie Mutsuki Mockett with Eric Farwell". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ "Traveling with the Evangelicals who feed America". Los Angeles Times. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2020-05-24.

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