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Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere by Simon Rowe

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5.0

These are ambitious, highly accomplished, unique and fascinating, and often beautifully told stories. Rowe shows himself in full control as a storyteller, no matter the situations he presents, and no matter his characters and their highly diverse backgrounds. Why Rowe’s fiction isn’t better known is both a mystery and a shame. Entirely deserving of the 2021 Independent Book Award in Fiction (and then some). I eagerly await more of Rowe’s work.