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The strength of using a first person point of view is voice, personality. Unfortunately, for me the voice of Rei Shimura, a 27-year-old American living in Japan, grates on me. She might be called prickly if I were being kind, and I found her a rather unamiable presence to filter this story through, and aspects of the style clunky. Which is a shame, because as an American what does fascinate about this story is the look at Japanese culture and how it differs from that in America in everything fro
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