Wild Grass on the Riverbank
By Hiromi Itō
2005
First Published
4.29
Average Rating
108
Number of Pages
Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive, Hiromi Itō’s Wild Grass on the Riverbank will plunge you into dreamlike landscapes of volatile proliferation: shape-shifting mothers, living father-corpses, and pervasively odd vegetation. At once grotesque and vertiginous, Itō interweaves mythologies, language, sexuality, and place into a genre-busting narrative of what it is to be a migrant.
Avg Rating
4.29
Number of Ratings
194
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Hiromi Itō
Author · 5 books
Hiromi Itō is one of the most prominent woman writers of contemporary Japan, with more than a dozen collections of poetry, several works of prose, numerous books of essays, and several major literary prizes to her name.
