The Faded Quadrant
Setsuko Mori, twelve years old and the scullery maid of the Tanaka Textile Mill, had not seen her mother’s face in three days, a fact that weighed heavier than the iron pots she scrubbed in the soot-choked winter of 1912. The coughing of her younger brother, Kenji, echoed through the thin plaster walls of their attic room, a wet, rattling sound that set the teeth on edge, and Setsuko knew that...
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