Scattered All Over the Earth ceramics One by one

One by one

splinted and set his mangled legs

quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound

hopelessness

What she doesn’t see is her mother

Scattered All Over the Earth ceramics One by oneA mind expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not too distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as the land of sushi. Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan Scandinavian): homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I