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Take a look at Meredith‘s book recommendation on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-lizard

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Publisher's Summary:
In different ways, these six stories explore what it takes to navigate the perils of the modern world as well as what it takes to reinvent one's self. Permeated by the author's own effervescent spin on magic realism, Lizard cements a special place for Yoshimoto in 20th-century Japanese fiction.

Lizard is a story collection, always an unnamed narrator and generally one other person who they are in relationship with, confronting a big life decision or dealing with residue from the past (the author calls it fate and karma.) The narrator voice is male as often as it is female, and sometimes I'm almost but not 100% sure. The characters are willingly thoughtful, philosophical, internal. Most stories take place in Tokyo.↘️

"This town breathes in all the universes that people in this city have in their heads." - Newlywed

Your love is different from mine. What I mean is, when you close your eyes, for that moment, the center of the universe comes to reside within you. And you become a small figure within that vastness, which spreads without limit behind you, and continues to expand at tremendous speed, to engulf all of my past, even before I was born, and every word I‘ve ever written, and each view I‘ve seen, and all the constellations, and all the darkness...

Day 23 - #Lizard #PoetryMatters

I have been meaning to read some of her work and am glad to have finally gotten around to it. Definitely got a Haruki Murikami vibe from her writing, although less surreal. Her short stories were wonderful snippets of life, with vivid characters. Thoroughly enjoyed and looking forward to trying one of her novels.

I hate bailing on books and rarely do, but Kerouac‘s writing in Dharma Bums is really getting on my nerves! I loved and still love the wanderlust his writing inspires in me, but sometimes he makes it seem like adventure and intellectualism is a boys‘ club only. My attitude has changed a lot in 4 years. I went to the library and got some Japanese literature I know I will love though. I‘m especially looking forward to Banana Yoshimoto and Ring.

I missed this yesterday but wanted to see what I had on my shelves unread, #booksbyasianwriters #readjanuary