ampampamp34The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda author of the PEN Open Book Awardwinning The Grave on the Wall.ampampamp34Matt Seidel Publishers Weeklys ampampamp34Big Indie Books of Fall 2024ampampamp34ampampamp10ampampamp34Both personal and choral The Afterlife is Letting Go is deeply felt precise and as generous in its insights as it is unsparing in its critiques of how exclusion zones proliferate and reach across time and space. A stirring trenchant and necessary work.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Christina Sharpe author of Ordinary NotesIn a series of reflective multilayered sometimes multivoiced essays poet Brandon Shimoda explores the ampampquotafterlifeampampquot of the U.S. governments forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during WWII excavating the ways these events continue to resonate today.