'Inheritors' Maps A Complicated Family Tree Through The Centuries

Here, in my neighborhood, life is a mix of re-revised rules for living and reality checks. Every day the local authorities publish new data on the where of illness. Daily a new national atrocity snaps a klieg light on us. Reading these days is a necessary escape from, and immersion into, reckoning. And so it is with Asako Serizawa's stunning and visceral debut, . Every page speaks to our current zeitgeist. Each character in these stories is occupied and occupier, trapped in a moral and existential