Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of the novels Picking Bones from the Ash and The Tree Doctor.  Her nonfiction books include American Harvest, which won the Nebraska Book Award, and Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award.  We talked about writing about nature, sex, loss, cross-cultural influences, Japan, and binaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices