HighBridge Audio

Skip to Main Content »

Category Navigation:

Search Site
 

All Sorrows Can Be Borne

Audiobook
Fiction: Literary
Unabridged   11 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/11/2021

All Sorrows Can Be Borne

Available from major retailers or BUY FROM AMAZON
Digital Download ISBN:9781696604376

Summary

With depth and tenderness, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is a harrowing and beautifully written novel that explores how families are shaped by political and economic circumstances, tremendous loss and ultimately forgiveness.

Be the first to review this product
Email to a Friend


Product Description

Inspired by true events, All Sorrows Can Be Borne is the story of Noriko Ito, a Japanese woman faced with unimaginable circumstances that force her to give up her son to save her husband. Set in Hiroshima, Osaka, and the badlands of eastern Montana and spanning the start of World War II to 1982, this breathtaking novel is told primarily in the voice of Noriko, a feisty aspiring actress who fails her audition to enter the Takarazuka Theater Academy. Instead, she takes the "part" of a waitress at a European-style tearoom in Osaka where she meets the mysterious and handsome manager, Ichiro Uchida. They fall in love over music and marry. Soon after Noriko becomes pregnant during their seaside honeymoon, Ichiro is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Noriko gives birth to a healthy baby boy, but to give the child a better life, Ichiro convinces her to give the toddler to his older sister and her Japanese-American husband, who live in Montana. Noriko holds on to the belief that this inconceivable sacrifice will lead to her husband's recovery. What happens next is unexpected and shocking and will affect Noriko for the rest of her life.

Eighteen years later, her son enlists in the US Navy and is sent to Japan. Finally, he is set to meet his birth mother, but their reunion cracks open the pain and suffering Noriko has endured.

Reviews/Praise

“An engrossing read, which is likely to catch the eye of a movie producer or director. Highly recommended.” ―Historical Novel Society

Author Bio

Loren Stephens, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a widely published essayist and fiction and nonfiction storyteller. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, MacGuffin, the Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Forge, Crack the Spine, Amuse Bouche, The Writer's Launch, and elsewhere.