Keiko Honda
July 24th, 2025
After a rare autoimmune disease left her permanently paralyzed, Keiko Honda left behind a career in cancer epidemiology and began to rebuild her life as an artist and memoirist. Hidden Flowers: A Memoir (Heritage House $26.95) blends essays, memory and watercolour paintings to explore the transformation of grief into creativity. Her memoir draws from personal journals and letters written to her daughter—intimate meditations on motherhood, illness, belonging and the Japanese concept of impermanence. “Only a mother truly understands,” she writes. “Her sleeping face will always remind me of her babyhood. I could gaze at it forever.” Hidden Flowers is as much a visual experience as it is a written one, capturing what Honda describes as “the invisible glow of life.” Her work reflects a lifelong pursuit of healing—scientific, emotional and creative. 9781772035605
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