Webinars & Presentations
Blossoms on a Poisoned Sea Freeman Book Award 2024 Honorable Mention with author Mariko Tatsumoto
Yuki is the daughter of a poor fisherman. Kiyo is the son of a senior executive at Chisso, a huge chemical conglomerate. In 1956, they meet and become friends. But then all living things in the once beautiful Minamata Bay suddenly die. The impoverished people living around it begin suffering from a terrifying disease that causes agonizing pain, paralysis, and death . . . including Yuki’s family. With no fish to catch and incapacitated from the disease, her parents are starving. The corporation stonewalls, denying culpability. Kiyo fails to convince his father to get the company to help. As the suffering spreads, Kiyo helps researchers find answers to the devastating neurological disease. Together Yuki and Kiyo must fight both the Japanese government and a powerful and ruthless corporation to save her family and the bay.