![]() ![]() The shortest story, “Not Warm at All,” features the narrator, a writer, contemplating the difficult life of her first childhood best friend and what his loss taught her about true humanity. In “Tomo-chan’s Happiness,” the titular main character gathers her courage to forge a connection with a co-worker in spite of past traumas that have rendered her passive. ![]() ![]() In “ ‘Mama!’ ” Matsuoka, an editor, is the victim of a shocking criminal act at her workplace and in the aftermath must deal with unpleasant childhood memories. In the long opening story, “House of Ghosts,” two college friends try to define their relationship over a shared love of food and the presence of two ghosts in the apartment where they gather together. They are young Japanese women, all professionals, who are often forced, by some precipitating event, to reckon with heartache in their pasts or worry in their presents. ![]() A new short story collection from one of Japan’s most beloved authors features five women seeking peace in the face of uncertainty.Īll the main characters in Yoshimoto’s newest volume are similar enough that you might find them all at the same neighborhood cafe, dreamily gazing out a window and contemplating the nature of fate or the vastness of the universe. ![]()
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