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that the stories carry a common theme of alienation, and that the strangeness of the stories underscores the protagonists' feelings of uncertainty. She also points out that the protagonists of "Barefoot", "The Flame Trees", and "The
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that while the stories stand well on their own, putting them together in a collection makes the unresolved endings more obvious. This may make readers more interested in the autobiographical elements of the stories, rather than Kizaki's skill as a writer.
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72:"The Phoenix Tree" – Mitsue cannot marry because of the large burn scar on her face she has had since childhood. As she nurses her aunt, who is dying of
58:"The Flame Trees" – Makiko lives in California in the 1960s. She is pregnant, but is terrified of having a child because of her own childhood trauma in
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