Uncoiling is a 27-page family immigration story distilled from the writings of the author’s Kikuchi ancestors Shizuko, Charlie and Alice.
Created between January and July 2025, as a thesis project, through the Portfolio Program at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, OR.
Themes: banishment, transgenerational storytelling, family trauma, healing.
Release date 11/01/2025.
Size: 7.25” x 10.5”
Printed at Reed College with help from APANO, PDX, in teal and fluorescent pink on cream paper.
Stapled and bound at IPRC
Released 1 November 2025.
Uncoiling is a 27-page family immigration story distilled from the writings of the author’s Kikuchi ancestors Shizuko, Charlie and Alice.
Created between January and July 2025, as a thesis project, through the Portfolio Program at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, OR.
Themes: banishment, transgenerational storytelling, family trauma, healing.
Release date 11/01/2025.
Size: 7.25” x 10.5”
Printed at Reed College with help from APANO, PDX, in teal and fluorescent pink on cream paper.
Stapled and bound at IPRC
Released 1 November 2025.
