A review by gwendle_vs_literature
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

4.0

I frequently find Japanese literature in translation a bit challenging (probably because I don’t know enough about Japanese social norms. The dialogue is somewhat abrupt, and characters state that they are feeling big emotions that they don’t often emote, and which don’t (for me) match up with the situation. 

That said, I enjoyed this book.  It’s a beautiful story about family and love and figuring out who you want to be in life — not in a contrived, grand way; in a subtle, human way, in an ordinary life.