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The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
3.0

Short read but very eerie. I’m not familiar with all the Japanese lores and myths, but there has to be something in that sort of nature that would explain the hallucinations and supernatural experiences main character Asa goes through. From what I can make of it is that all the sacrifices she makes as a wife drains the life out of her, leading her to see and hear things that are abnormal in the mundane and empty countryside. Her husband constantly on the phone in an absent manner, no one telling her anything about the mysterious shut in brother-in-law, grandpa also not quite responsive either. Her mother-in-law and herself become a mirrored image as both have to deal with the loneliness that is being a woman.