Nineteen autobiographical accounts of women from the Hiroshima area who lost husbands in the nuclear attack.

Translation of: Genbaku ni otto o ubawarete.

We were an odd couple, but ... /Setsuko Nishimoto -- All the tortures of this world made into one / Tsuruyo Monzen -- The great flood and the atom bomb / Shinayo Dobara -- We found his testament / Fujie Ryoso -- The mother who lay down with a corpse / Kiyono Fujioka -- A coffin made from medicine chests / Tamano Momoki -- My unweaned baby was irradiated too ... / Tsuyuko Yokomaru -- He came back alive, but ... / Masako Nomura -- We switched from being drapers to farmers / Haruko Sumii -- The war turned my life upside down / Ochika Matsuda -- I'm an atom-bomb widow / Yae Kirido -- I went to an island to look for my husband / Sada Tatsumoto -- An invalid like me was left alive / Shizuko Ryoso -- With an unweaned baby strapped to my back / Kinuyo Tade -- We've lived this long by encouraging one another / Haru Takasaki -- Even now there are nights when I can't sleep / Midori Matsumoto -- The death of my husband and two children / Toshiko Yokochi -- He's never far from my thoughts / Kazu Shimooke -- Bringing back my dead husband / Chiyoko Sugita.