A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers
Includes 12 monthly overview spreads and space for extra notes
and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition
Jayne Anne Phillips’s most personal
First Snow on Fuji Essays & Short Stories A new collection of evocativeThe stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabatas