![]() ![]() Mockett’s memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, is an exploration of how the Japanese cope with grief and tragedy, set against the backdrop of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Tōhoku, Japan, and her family’s 350-year-old Buddhist temple. Her debut novel, Picking Bones from Ash, was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was a finalist for the Paterson Prize. ![]() ![]() She later received her MFA from the Bennington Writers Seminars in Vermont. To request a Zoom link for this event, please contact the Writers Institute at and raised in California to a Japanese mother and American father, Mockett graduated with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Columbia University. This event is free and open to the public as part of the Seavey Reading Series at Susquehanna University’s Writers Institute. Photo and Press Release provided by Ayva Kunes - Memoirist, literary journalist, and novelist Marie Mutsuki Mockett will give a virtual reading of her work at 7:30 p.m. ![]()
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