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The Puzzle Box

Catherine — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:13:03 +0000

What do a traumatic brain injury, the imperial family of Japan, and a puzzle have in common? If you’re Mike Brink, a man whose football injury left him a savant in the world of patterns and mathematics, the answer is easy: the myth of the Puzzle Box of Japan. For Danielle Trussoni, this is the […]

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What’s Left of Me is Yours

Catherine — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:30:31 +0000

Sumiko’s mother, Rina, died in a car accident when she was a child. Her parents were divorced, her father not a part of her life, so she went to live with her beloved grandfather. Now, twenty years later, as What’s Left of Me is Yours opens, she receives a call about a man from her mother’s […]

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Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

Catherine — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:16:59 +0000

Japan is known as having a culture that prizes social conformity and adherence to societal values. In such a country, what would it be like to be a young woman whose nature keeps her from understanding these unspoken guidelines? For Keiko Furukuro, the narrator of Convenience Store Woman, it is not difficult. For everyone around […]

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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding

Catherine — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 08:03:46 +0000

Imagine, if you can, your entire life changing in a flash. Literally, and by ‘flash’ I mean a blinding light the force and magnitude of an atomic bomb. This is what happens to Amaterasu Takahashi in Jackie Copleton’s new novel A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding. She and her family live in Nagasaki and on […]

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The Gods of Heavenly Punishment

Catherine — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:54:50 +0000

There are numerous novels about World War II and the events leading up to it but TheThe Gods of Heavenly Punishment: A Novel comes from a perspective not often seen—that of life in Japan in the late 1930s. Author Jennifer Cody Epstein intermingles the lives of disparate characters that come together and move apart against the […]

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