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Title: Didn't hate it but couldn't finish it
Review: First Sentence: Mas Arai didn't believe in Jesus or Buddha, but thought there might be something in bachi. In Japanese, bachi was when you snapped at your wife, and then tripped on a rock in the driveway.Mas Arai was in Hiroshima when the bombs fell. Now, fifty years' later and an older man, he is a widower with his gardening business in Pasadena. But you can never truly escape the past. A man comes looking for Mas' boyhood friend, now known as Joji Haneda. Joji has been murdered and Mas carries a secret he wants kept that way.I usually enjoy books about other cultures and I know people have raved about this book, but I lacked the patience to get into it. I found the Japanese dialect and phrases, although appropriate, difficult to get past. I was not captivated by the character of Mas and found him depressing. It made it past my 50-page rule, but not by much.
