Bilingual Japanese and English Text, Facing-Page Edition. This autobiographical work chronicles Naomi's struggles to understand the cruelty of the world from her experience of raising swallowtail butterflies in her garden balcony. This experience leads her to unravel a family secret of her then 14-year-old father's history of the bombing of Nagasaki. This short story of butterflies, dreams, gods, and survival is woven into a beautiful message of hope.

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