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The Name of the Flower by Tomone Matsumoto, Kuniko Mukoda

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5.0

a tight collection of domestic short stories. people here are stalked by shameful memories from decades ago as they quietly decay into creatures resembling animals and inanimate objects. each story features a family with a peaceful surface covering deep-seated rot. the best kind of “depressed japanese woman” writing.
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