Things Become Other Things
Mod walks the Kii Peninsula writing letters to a friend who died young in Connecticut, on class, escape, and what an adopted country can and cannot give.
Mod walks Japan’s Kii Peninsula, writing letters to a childhood friend who died young back in small-town Connecticut. A walking book about class, escape, and what an adopted country can and cannot give you. He arrived in Japan at nineteen and stayed, and the walk keeps returning him to the life he did not have, and to the people who never got the chance to leave.
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Maria Popova
These questions quiver alive in Things Become Other Things (public library) — part memoir of the search for belonging, part love letter to his childhood best friend, who “bled out on a dirt yard under the stars” when the boys were teenagers, part record of alchemizing loss into a largeness of being by learning “to walk, and walk well, and witness the people along the way.”
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