I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this book. The writing is very beautiful and each chapter reads like a short story. Many of the chapters were published as short stories before they were brought together into this book. It only shows occasionally. I thought the ending was a strange choice...
This story of a mother's suicide and how her teenage daughter copes with it was one that I had high hopes for. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work. None of the characters move beyond a two-dimensional state, and most of them are fairly nasty people, especially Hideki and Hanae. Pity, this could have...
Kyoki Mori delivers a moving account of her life by threading together various knitting projects with different episodes in her life. As Mori's story unravels, you share pain when she loses her mother, the frustration she feels with her family, the slow demise of her marraige and the joy she finds w...
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