000			01974nam a2200289 a 4500
001			067446
003			BSMA
005			20231024143949.0
008			231024s2001 usa 000 1 eng d
010			_a2001018876
020			_a9780684869483
082	0	0	_aFIC WAL
100	1		_aWalbert, Kate _d1961-
245	1	4	_aThe gardens of Kyoto _b: a novel _c/ Kate Walbert
260			_aNew York _b: Scribner _c, 2001
300			_a288 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aI had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you? So begins Kate Walbert's novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and, perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad, Randall had grown up among ghosts: his father, Sterling, present only in body; his mother, dead at a young age; and the apparitions of a slave family. When Ellen receives a package after Randall's death, containing his diary and a book called The Gardens of Kyoto, her bond to him is cemented, and the mysteries of his short life start to unravel. The narrative moves back and forth between Randall's death in 1945 and the autumn six years later, when Ellen meets Lieutenant Henry Rock at a college football game on the eve of his departure for Korea. But it soon becomes apparent that Ellen's memory may be distorting reality, altered as it is by a mix of imagination and disappointment, and that the truth about Randall and Henry -- and others -- may be hidden.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aYoung women _v--Fiction
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x--Influence _v--Fiction
650			_aCousins _v-Fiction
650		0	_aDeath _v--Fiction
651			_aMaryland _v-Ficiton
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
655		7	_aLove stories
942			_cMO
999			_c271642 _d271642