‘At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, there is a diorama capturing the moment the atomic bomb exploded. Within that overwhelming flash of light, the river continues to flow. This is a view no one could have seen – not even from the plane that dropped the bomb. By the time it detonated, 43 seconds after release, the Enola Gay [the aircraft that dropped the bomb] was already far over the ocean. That abstract, black river – never seen by anyone – and the river I watched from my apartment window may seem infinitely far apart. Still, I want to imagine the everyday lives that once unfolded beneath that blinding white heat’
