Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye from WWNorton, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction, and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her newest book, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland from Graywolf Press, follows her journey through seven red agricultural states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism.

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