Instructions for the Living
by Mariko Nagai
Fiction
$12.95
74 pages, October 2012
Published by Word Palace Press
Designed by Benjamin Daniel Lawless
“Starkly recounted with a clear, cold tone, these stories carry the weight of a survivor bearing witness.”
~ Publishers Weekly

Learn more about the author at her website.
“Mariko Nagai creates a richly evocative voice that is both immediate and reflective.”
~ James Ragan
“Nagai has a voice and vision to be reckoned with .... These stories will change you, change what you know, change how to imagine the lives of people around you.”
~ Jonis Agee, judge, G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction
