One Thousand Cranes

Helen has been tattooing paper cranes down Sakura's spine for years.Each crane is hand-poked with traditional Japanese techniques, each session a ritual of pain and precision that Sakura insists upon. Helen doesn't understand why her best friend chooses such an agonizing process, or why the cranes must follow an exact path down her back.But tradition demands that a thousand paper cranes will grant one wish.And some wishes are worth any amount of pain.One Thousand Cranes is an achingly beautiful story about love, friendship, and the courage to hope for the impossible. Leto Armitage is a former fry cook, strip club bouncer and librarian who decided to start writing because he was really curious what it would be like and ended up loving it. He is still recovering from having a literature degree but despite that handicap managed to become a functional member of society. His children are helping him prevent a chronic onset on adulthood. He enjoys writing for perverts who are also hopeless romantics. He has an affection for flawed characters and happy endings and cries during sad movies.Most of Armitage's writing is done on his deck surrounded by cats and dogs underneath his fig tree while the fascist squirrels throw things at him. His writing has been praised for his dialogue and sense hyper-reality and humor.