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kittynalgas 's review for:
Territory of Light
by Yūko Tsushima
3.9 stars.
At first I honestly wanted to hate this short little book as I felt just as annoyed as the main character throughout a lot of the book.
Maybe this has to do with my choosing to not have children for the simple fact that I am aware enough to imagine what a huge responsibility and somewhat annoyance it can be to raise a child. (This is evidently shown throughout the book)
Though I started off annoyed, I grew to appreciate the sober descriptions of the main character's emotions towards her impending divorce and single motherhood. Her moments of annoyance and borderline resentment towards her child at outbursts and tantrums thrown in public to the warm moments of her daughter attempting to "take care" of her when she was sick showed the rollercoaster of emotions motherhood can put you through when there is seemingly no one else to lean on.
This novel is a very honest portraiture of what it's like to be a single mother in the midst of working and feeling ashamed that your love life/plans for parenting didn't work out as you'd imagined it. The descriptions of light and environment were so beautiful and really helped warm up the novel as a whole despite the main subject matter.
(Also interesting to note that Tsushima's father is Osamu Dazai, an author I have had on my TBR for a hot minute.)
At first I honestly wanted to hate this short little book as I felt just as annoyed as the main character throughout a lot of the book.
Maybe this has to do with my choosing to not have children for the simple fact that I am aware enough to imagine what a huge responsibility and somewhat annoyance it can be to raise a child. (This is evidently shown throughout the book)
Though I started off annoyed, I grew to appreciate the sober descriptions of the main character's emotions towards her impending divorce and single motherhood. Her moments of annoyance and borderline resentment towards her child at outbursts and tantrums thrown in public to the warm moments of her daughter attempting to "take care" of her when she was sick showed the rollercoaster of emotions motherhood can put you through when there is seemingly no one else to lean on.
This novel is a very honest portraiture of what it's like to be a single mother in the midst of working and feeling ashamed that your love life/plans for parenting didn't work out as you'd imagined it. The descriptions of light and environment were so beautiful and really helped warm up the novel as a whole despite the main subject matter.
(Also interesting to note that Tsushima's father is Osamu Dazai, an author I have had on my TBR for a hot minute.)