A review by sweetwitches
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto

as a nostalgia queen and yoshimoto fan (i haven’t read her in over 2-3 years now though) i love the general premise of this book but i think it really fell short on the execution for me.

i love the concept of remembering your past in fragments and not quite getting the full picture for better or for worse. i can empathize with the feeling of feeling like something is missing, being drawn to something and not knowing what it is but i guess the way these ideas were explored were not for me. also didn’t think she explored yayoi’s premonitions enough which is crazy because i think that’s the title of this book.

i tried to keep an open mind when it came to the taboo topics (

incest and student-teacher relationships

) but ultimately i didn’t see its purpose. i’d like to think i’m missing some cultural context and that things got lost in translation.