A review by suvata
Naoko by Keigo Higashino

challenging emotional mysterious sad

3.0

• TBR since December 2, 2020 • mystery • emotional  • japan • psychological-thriller • translated-works • 288 pages • first pub 2001 • 3 Stars 
 
An everyman, Heisuke works hard at a factory job to provide for his wife, Naoko, and young daughter, Monami. He takes pleasure from the small things, like breakfast with both of them after a night shift. His placid life is rocked when, looking up from his microwave dinner one evening, he realizes the TV news that he wasn't paying attention to is reporting a catastrophic bus accident and the names of his loved ones. When Monami finally wakes from a coma, she seems to think she's Naoko, who has died protecting her daughter.