The Heron Catchers

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By David Joiner

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2024 International Rubery Book Awards Winner | 2023 American Writing Awards Finalist | 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist | 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks... Read More

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The Heron Catchers

Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage to a Japanese woman has failed.

Stone Bridge Press

Description

2024 International Rubery Book Awards Winner | 2023 American Writing Awards Finalist | 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist | 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist

Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage to a Japanese woman has failed.

After Nozomi abandons Sedge and their marriage, taking all their money and leaving him with a ceramics shop he can't manage alone, her brother and his wife offer him a lifeline at their Japanese hot spring inn until he can get back on his feet. As he proceeds forward from this devastation in his life, he becomes involved with the wife of the man Nozomi ran off with as well as her stepson, a troubled 16-year-old whose jealousy and potential for violence contrasts with his interest in birds, origami, and the haiku of Matsuo Basho. What unfolds in the shadow of "the immortal mountain of cranes" will change their lives forever.

Set in Kanazawa and Yamanaka Onsen near the Sea of Japan, The Heron Catchers explores the importance of recognising suffering both in others and in oneself, of being compassionate, and of trusting those who offer love in the shattering wake of loss.

The Heron Catchers is the second in a series of novels set in and around the Japanese city of Kanazawa.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611720815

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Stone Bridge Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 280

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David Joiner Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

David Joinermade his first trip to Japan in 1991-a five-month study program in Hokkaido-and three years later moved for the first of seven times to Vietnam. In Japan, where he has also moved numerous times, he has called Sapporo, Akita, Fukui, Tokyo, and most recently the western Japanese city of Kanazawa home.

David Joiner's writing has appeared in literary journals and elsewhere, includingEchoes: Writers in Kyoto 2017,The Brooklyn Rail,Phoebe Journal,The Ontario Review, andThe Madison Review.His first novel,Lotusland, set in contemporary Vietnam, was published in 2015 by Guernica Editions. His second novel,Kanazawa, was published by Stone Bridge Press in 2022 and was named as a Foreword Reviews Indie Finalist for multicultural novels.