“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had.” This is two novels packaged in one book: an original short novella, and a longer sequel. They are not exactly sequels but they doo cover a lot of the same ground thematically, but more importantly, the three narrators — a mother and daughter in the first novel, and then the sister/aunt in the second, are all from the same family, so they have a shared history, even […]
Meiko Kawakami
Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami
