The Silent Cry

This book is a wild ride, and it is pretty bleak. However, the writing is great, and the story does interesting things with both family history (misremembering in order to guard a legacy, discoveries that reframe a family story that everyone thought they understood) and Japanese history. I looked up some of the historical references, but it wasn't really a requirement to follow the story.

A dark path into memory, both in life and generational, that digs into questions about politics, faith and self. A remarkable, unsettling novel.