The Twilight Years - Sawako Ariyoshi

[Luke]

The Twilight Years, Sawako Ariyoshi, translated from Japanese by Mildred Tahara, 1972, Japan, NOVEL

"...How can she work her full-time job, including half days on Saturday, clean house, cook meals, and provide a home for her husband and teenage son—as well as care for an aging, difficult man? She can't, and it causes her to wonder: "Was her husband about to tell her that she could not go to work and leave his father unattended? Would he also say it was high time she stayed at home where she belonged?"..."

(H.S., p. 117)