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tronella 's review for:
The Nakano Thrift Shop
by Hiromi Kawakami
I liked the general idea of this, but I found it very difficult to connect with the main character. Even though it is written from her perspective, I found that her feelings didn't come across very clearly; she would declare that she was in love with another character or say how sad she'd felt in an earlier scene, and every time it was news to me that she'd had even a bit of emotional involvement with anything she was describing. I'm not sure if that's my own fault, the author's or the translator's. The inconsistent use of speech marks was an annoying distraction.