A review by thirdcoast
An I-Novel by Minae Mizumura

Did not finish book.

I feel like this novel loses its way translated to English. It’s very atmospheric and part of what the novel does is weave in English and Japanese. That effect falls flat when the English phrases from the original novel are merely in bold font.

Otherwise, 60 pages in and I have the day-in-the-life gist. Nothing much is going to happen that I care about. Or, it’s not worth the wading through 300+ pages on inner monologue and conversations with the main character’s sister.