Craig Mod's 300-mile walk along the ancient pilgrim trails of Japan's remote Kii peninsula is the prompt for a closely-observed memoir in Things Become Other Things. In short vignettes, Mod walks through his own life, growing up in post-industrial America, Japanese traditions, family, friendship, loss, and how things change.

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