Book No. 89 of 2020
I’m going to be totally honest: I don’t think I fully absorbed or processed this book, because I read most of it while preoccupied about the election, and then finished it at the end of an exhaustingly joyful day of celebration. My review will be very brief.
This was a charming read, the type of book that quietly remarks on the day-to-day aspects of human nature in its contradictions and little mysteries. Love—in its many fickle, irrational forms—is a major theme here, experienced by a cast of quirky characters and a protagonist who observes with some bewilderment the ways it affects herself and the people around her.
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I was somewhat reminded of Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop.
This generally read like a lighter, less absurd/cynical version of Sayako Murata’s Convenience Store Woman.