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Marie Mutsuki Mockett is an American novelist and memoirist.
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett is an American novelist and memoirist.
Mockett was born to a Japanese mother and an American father and grew up speaking English, German and Japanese. Her mother's family owns a Buddhist temple in Tohoku Japan, 25 miles from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power reactor. [1] Her father's family owns a wheat farm in Nebraska. [2] Mockett graduated from the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California [3] and Columbia University in 1992. [4] Her novel, Picking Bones from Ash, was published in 2009 and short listed for the Paterson Prize.
An Op Ed published in the New York Times about the effects of the 2011 Great East Earthquake in Japan [5] ultimately led to the publication of Mockett's memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was shortlisted for the PEN Open Award, [6] the Northern California Book Award [7] and was the Barnes a Noble Discover Pick. [8] American Harvest, her third book, follows her travels through the American heartland in the company of evangelical harvesters and examines the rural and urban divide and won the 2020 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction. [9] Calling on her own biracial, bicultural identity, Mockett strove to see the "other" in a divided America. [10]
In 2022, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to live and conduct research in Japan at Waseda University in Tokyo. [11] Her most recent book, a novel titled "The Tree Doctor," was published by Graywolf Press in 2024 to critical acclaim. [12] This contemporary post-pandemic novel was a most-anticipated book according to the Washington Post [13] and Oprah [14] and features a coming of middle age heroine who reinvents herself, through an affair with a mysterious arborist, against the backdrop of the Japanese classic "The Tale of Genji." Mockett's essays have appeared in Elle , [15] The New York Times , [16] and Salon. [17] She has taught at Saint Mary's College MFA [18] , the Rainier Writing Workshop [19] and is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. [20] . With Kiese Laymon, she is also a series editor of the new nonfiction imprint, Great Circle Books, published by UNC Press. [21]
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Michael Schaub, "'The Tree Doctor' chronicles one woman's response to a series of life-changing crises," NPR, March 19, 2024. Retrieved September 13, 2024.