EPISODE · Apr 26, 2024 · 59 MIN
UMRA Reads: The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
from UMich Retirees Podcast · host University of Michigan Retirees Association
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is a poetic novel about a real telephone booth in Otsuchi, Japan, a rural town decimated by the 2011 tsunami. Known as the “Wind Phone,” the disconnected rotary telephone allows grieving family members to speak, in a way, to loved ones who have passed on.
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