On the 80th Summer

I was about seven years old, when I read the picture book, “Hiroshima no Pika,” by Maruki Toshi. The word pika is a Japanese onomatopoeia for flashing light. It came to refer to how the Hibakushas experienced the atomic bombs. The book follows 7-year-old Mii, and her parents. The watercolor illustrations of the family experiences

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