The Ash Garden, By Dennis Bock is a Moving Portrait of Two Lives, Damaged and Changed by the War, it is a Haunting Mediation on the uses of Memory and its Power to Both Condemn and Redeem

No matter who you are, or which side of the bombing of Hiroshima you are coming from, the Ash Garden by Dennis Bock clearly brings out the struggles, emotions, and pain that follows everyone involved. The struggles of the main characters in this novel are both besieged in their own unique way. Emiko, a Japanese girl who was physically wounded by the bomb itself in Hiroshima, deals with the struggles of physical deformities as well as the emotional unstableness due to the death of her family caused by the bomb. Anton Böll, a scientist who was with the United States military during Worl…