“I wanted to be seen, but I didn’t want to be known.” Chapter 1: Fuyuko’s Solitude Fuyuko Irie, a freelance proofreader in her mid-thirties, lives a quiet, isolated […]
Japanese literature
Breasts and Eggs
“What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to have a body?” Part One: Summer The novel opens with Natsuko, a struggling writer in […]
Japanese literature
Heaven
“Eyes are the windows to the soul, but what if the soul is already broken?” Chapter 1: The Letter The novel opens with a 14-year-old boy, known only […]