words

 

     japan

          ~ introduction
          ~ runoff
          ~ shakuhachi
          ~ chiiori
          ~ zazen

 

     selections from other essays

          ~ still life, published in Crab Creek Review,
             2010
          ~ skin, published in Topography of War:
             Asian American Essays, 2006
          ~ fight club, published in Because I Said So,
             HarperCollins, 2005
          ~ what my mother never told me, published in
             Mothers Who Think, Villard Books, 1999
          ~ the silence that won't go away, published in
             The Los Angeles Times, 1999