Henry Carter Hull

In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan's Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although...

Shoko, a Japanese woman married to an American soldier, is too ill to travel back to Japan, so she sends her daughter, Sue, in her place, but the trip reveals family secrets that change both their lives in very dramatic ways.

On the eve of World War II a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. His own adventure becomes entwined with the lives of three people he meets there.

Wink is thrilled to be accepted to the Summer Moon School for Young Ninja, but he cannot quite master the concept of being silent and stealthy when what he really wants is to be noticed.

Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.