Title: One sunny day
First published: 1996
Description: "Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home...".

Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, Hideko recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.
Subjects: Atomic bomb victims, Girls, Hiroshima-shi (Japan), World War, 1939-1945, Personal narratives, Children, Biography, History, Hiroshima-shi (japan), bombardment, 1945, World war, 1939-1945, children, Girls, biography
Places: Japan, Hiroshima-shi
People: Hideko Tamura Snider (1934-)
Time periods: Bombardment, 1945
LC classification: D767.25.H6 S56 1996