My Name is Delicious is a fictionalized version of my true life. It centers around the trauma that my Japanese-American father endured around the years of WWII.

I had a career as a licensed clinical social worker for many years. I learned about how trauma is passed down through the DNA from one generation to the next. I had struggled with depression for most of my lifetime. As I learned more details about my father’s hardships, I understood the grief and post traumatic stress that he carried throughout his life.

My book reveals my father’s endurance in a Japanese internment camp during the war. It uncovers the horror of losing his entire family in the Hiroshima bombing. That heaviness was passed down to me, and I carried it until I unleashed it through the creativity of writing my book. I was able to emote the trauma into creativity.

I still carry the wounds of losing my paternal grandparents, and aunts, and uncles in the bombing. It is a grief that can never be fully healed. But sharing these experiences has been cathartic. I know that others have similar wounds. Together we heal.

 

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