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A review by folly_problem
Friendship For Grown-Ups by Nao-Cola Yamazaki
5.0
A short but satisfying collection of loosely linked stories.
The theme, is any seems to be that of changes, even if they aren't fully acknowledged. A rock suddenly becomes life, an author struggles with the fact that people judge her by her books and not just her character, and another comes to terms with a past boyfriend, and the destruction of their former home.
For a colleciton preoccupied with incompatible dualities, it does not seem focused on conflict or distress. Instead the calm, bemused regarding of reality wins out. And there is no tendency to solutions, simply reminders of how life and our sense of it can be contradictory. And that is fine.
I, for one, found that immensely satisfying.
The theme, is any seems to be that of changes, even if they aren't fully acknowledged. A rock suddenly becomes life, an author struggles with the fact that people judge her by her books and not just her character, and another comes to terms with a past boyfriend, and the destruction of their former home.
For a colleciton preoccupied with incompatible dualities, it does not seem focused on conflict or distress. Instead the calm, bemused regarding of reality wins out. And there is no tendency to solutions, simply reminders of how life and our sense of it can be contradictory. And that is fine.
I, for one, found that immensely satisfying.