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Examines Japanese culture and family.

A young girl's great-grandmother tells her about the Japanese concept mono-no-aware, the feeling of beauty and sadness, and she comes to understand it after the passing of her great-grandmother and the brief blooming of a cherry tree.

"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used...

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE * When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in...

High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens...