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I was excited to come across this title by my favorite Japanese author, Banana Yoshimoto, in a local bookstore in Homer, Alaska.

January — Tom Lake
February — David Copperfield
March — Sea of Tranquility
April — Dead-End Memories

#fiction #topread2024

I adored this collection of five gentle, female centered, melancholy stories of everyday Japanese life punctured with a big event and reoccurring elements that include coming of age, love, engagement, family, loss and a couple of building demolitions and hospital courtyards. I think Murakami fans will love Yoshimoto.

I started a new short story collection today, and it‘s off to a seriously strong start. Banana Yoshimoto‘s work is so well-observed.

A really perfect book to keep me company during covid. I love everything banana yoshimoto writes and this was no exception. Her writing style is so gentle and good natured and beautiful and this was just perfect. I love the quiet kind magic realism and how she writes about food.

Well I‘m off work sick with something that‘s almost certainly covid but I keep testing negative weirdly. I feel like an absolute pile of crap :/ lucky to be warm at my parents reading banana yoshimoto‘s latest collection of short stories though

“I also discovered that sitting in a cafe watching people go by was just like watching a river.
It could only happen in a city with a long history.
The sight of modern-day people streaming past old, weighty buildings of frightening shapes and colors — that was exactly what a river was.
It was how I came to understand that what made a river frightening was the chilling infinitude of time itself.”

I‘ve read several books by this author. This one is a collection of short stories, nothing too memorable. I like her writing style though.