SOURCE: Iwamoto, Yoshio. Review of A Healing Family, by Kenzaburō Ōe. World Literature Today 71, no. 3 (summer 1997): 653-54.
In the following review, Iwamoto commends Ōe's sensitive and poignant exploration of his relationship with his mentally and physically handicapped son, Hiraki, in A Healing Family.
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