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What are women in contemporary Japan, and the world? In the beginning of this novel by an award-winning young writer, they are these two things. Natsu meets her sister Maki and her daughter as they come to Tokyo for a visit. Natsu moved to Tokyo from Osaka ten years before to write but she's been in limbo ever since. She's mulling over her eggs--she isn't in a relationship, and doesn't want to be in one, with a man, but she's reaching the biological clock deadline and much of the novel consists
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