The Kamikaze Heart
A personal exploration of family, war, and the burdens of storytelling.
13 min readFeb 13, 2019
In a box of personal treasures in my house, alongside a billion-years-old nugget of meteorite and a small shark’s tooth, sits a simple heart made of acrylic glass. It was created in 1945 as an act of love, but it exists only because of an act of violence. The story behind it involves my grandfather, my mother…
