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A review by elfs29
Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.5
This collection is really special, as is everything Yoshimoto writes. Her explorations of grief and loss are so poignant, but I was struck in these stories as I was especially in N.P too by the way she writes women and the way her queerness manifests in very gorgeous female characters and relationships. Asleep produces such complex female characters, born through the connections between them and the shared melancholy of their experiences.
Whenever we got together I would listen to him talk, and then I’d nod, and that was it. The rhythm of my nods and the rhythm of his talking would become so exquisitely well synchronised that it almost became sort of an art. And that’s when I started getting the feeling that what I was doing was a lot like Shiori’s job, like lying next to people as they slept.
Whenever we got together I would listen to him talk, and then I’d nod, and that was it. The rhythm of my nods and the rhythm of his talking would become so exquisitely well synchronised that it almost became sort of an art. And that’s when I started getting the feeling that what I was doing was a lot like Shiori’s job, like lying next to people as they slept.