Six intertwining survival narratives of the attack on Hiroshima, which capture just how absurd and incomprehensible the devastation was. I found the descriptions of the city to have a creepy, fairy-tale-like quality: a garden in a razed city with pumpkins roasted on the vine, perfectly baked potatoes under the soil, and not a soul alive to eat them. Radiation stimulating roots of vegetation so that as people returned, bereaved and traumatised, the ruins were alive with verdant cheerful greenery.