JAPONICA BOOK REVIEW
The Heron Catchers: A Novel by David Joiner
A multi-sided geometry of love and pain set in rural Ishikawa
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3 min readOct 17, 2023
Like Kanazawa, David Joiner’s previous award-winning novel, The Heron Catchers is set in Ishikawa Prefecture, mostly in the town of Yamanaka Onsen where he once lived.
