An aspiring writer discovers that her landlady, who grows carrots shaped like hands, is a murderer. With dark calm and disquieting imagery, the author leads readers on a journey of the macabre in a progression of tales that resound long after the last page is turned. What appears to be a collection of sympathetically worded, yet familiar, short stories then veers into the unexpected. A girl asks a classmate to accompany her to a meeting with her father as her mother lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer. Ogawa ( Hotel Iris, 2010, etc.) crafts 11 interlocking short stories with eloquent prose that belies the nature of the tales she spins.Ī mother walks into a bakery to buy two strawberry shortcakes for her son’s birthday, a child who’s been dead for 12 years.
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