"So well documented and psychologically penetrating that the entire book gives the reader the feeling of an autobiographical testimony."
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Libero
“A spare, stunning, elegiac gem of a book. Milena Michiko Flašar writes with a poet’s clarity of language and vision, probing deeply below the surfaces of familiar Japanese stereotypes … to tell a compassionate and insightful story of dysfunction, despair and friendship.”
Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being