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A review by kalira
2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake by Barry Eisler, Jake Adelstein, William Gibson, Yoko Ono
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
3.75
This collection didn't aim to make a carefully curated, thematic message, or aim for any high awards, it aimed, I think, to share how people are, how they felt, and in that it succeeds excellently. A wide variety of reactions, of perspectives, of ways to share what they will or what they choose to focus on.
While few of the perspectives offered are from those close to the disaster, and many from around the world (mainly ex-pats, or people with friends or family or a past in Japan), considering it was put together very swiftly beginning a week after the disaster . . . well, one can hardly be surprised at that.
With only brief words or an image, a small window, from any one person, it's very open-ended, but again, that's only to be expected for the time it was assembled and put out - everything was still rather open-ended, at the time. And reading it now, more than thirteen years later, made me curious, made me think, made me hopeful, made me angry, made me cry.
While few of the perspectives offered are from those close to the disaster, and many from around the world (mainly ex-pats, or people with friends or family or a past in Japan), considering it was put together very swiftly beginning a week after the disaster . . . well, one can hardly be surprised at that.
With only brief words or an image, a small window, from any one person, it's very open-ended, but again, that's only to be expected for the time it was assembled and put out - everything was still rather open-ended, at the time. And reading it now, more than thirteen years later, made me curious, made me think, made me hopeful, made me angry, made me cry.