pstrongFINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionstrongpbrpstrongA BEST BOOK OF 2022strongbrstrongemOprahem emDailyem12539emTIME Magazineem12539emWashingtonemem Postem12539emPublishers Weeklyem12539emLit HubemstrongpbrpstrongBestselling author of strongstrongemBreasts and Eggsemstrongstrong Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. strongpbrpFuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has la