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Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Except Not So Happy

Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

February 5, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

The narrator, a young woman whose name we never know, is in a dissolving marriage.  Her husband needs to leave, for unknown reasons.  Perhaps he just needs his own space.  She is not terribly fussed about the situation.  But he feels it incumbent upon himself to find her a new apartment.  Nothing in her price range fits though, and so she finally goes her own way, three year old daughter in tow, and finds her own place without mentioning it to him. This is her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asian Heritage, Contemporary Japanese Life, GREAT apartment, Single Mom with Issues, Trying to Adult, Yuko Tsushima

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asian Heritage, Contemporary Japanese Life, GREAT apartment, Single Mom with Issues, Trying to Adult, Yuko Tsushima ·
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Looking to the Mountains

Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima

May 14, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Japan Takiko, a young unwed mother, has these dreams.  She is running “faster, faster.. . . When she has run until her body is empty, she stops abruptly and lets her gaze return again to the distant, delicately sparkling world below.  Rivers trace silver lines.  The sea is in sight.  . . . drifting ice appears and expands into a world of white.” But that is very far from her actual life.  She has a father who is physically abusive when drunk (most […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, 1980 Japan, Comfort in nature, Disfunctional family, Motherhood, Nonconformist heroine, Yuko Tsushima

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, 1980 Japan, Comfort in nature, Disfunctional family, Motherhood, Nonconformist heroine, Yuko Tsushima ·
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