A review by apechild
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto

4.0

I have been dibbling in and out of this collection of short stories for the last couple of weeks, and I finished reading the final story this morning. I do like Banana Yoshimoto's characters and style of story telling. They're all modern tales of people living in and around Tokyo, coming to terms with modern living, relationships, sex etc, but I think above all else coming to terms with themselves and the person they really are. There are some great characters, such as "Lizard", and the daughters in Blood and Water and the final story, A Strange Tale from Down by the River. I love being able to dip into modern Japanese life through her stories... well, modern and modern, this collection is from 1993 so it's actually twenty years old!!!