katkat123 's review for:

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

4.25

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Heartbreaking book of poverty and women in pain, wrapped around another plotline of what it means to create, both art and life. Painful joyful exploration of wanting children and the realities of different ways of being raised (or abandoned). Sometimes meandered off in a way which felt life-like but did not contribute to experience of reading the novel.