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Meiko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

May 9, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had.” This is two novels packaged in one book: an original short novella, and a longer sequel. They are not exactly sequels but they doo cover a lot of the same ground thematically, but more importantly, the three narrators — a mother and daughter in the first novel, and then the sister/aunt in the second, are all from the same family, so they have a shared history, even […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Meiko Kawakami

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:293 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Meiko Kawakami ·
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The pale pink cover of "Breasts and Eggs" held up in front of a large bookcase

“What if you have a child, and that child wishes with every bone in her body that she’d never been born?”

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

January 2, 2021 by zinka 4 Comments

The inside cover of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs is extremely misleading. I don’t think I usually put a lot of faith in the short descriptions that live on the insides or backs of books, so I guess normally this wouldn’t have bothered me, but I received Breasts and Eggs as a gift and knew only one thing about it when I unwrapped it: the book had been featured on a very short list of recent stellar stories that contained asexual protagonists. So maybe that’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexuality, childhood, conception, Fiction, Meiko Kawakami, parenthood, reproduction

zinka's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexuality, childhood, conception, Fiction, Meiko Kawakami, parenthood, reproduction ·
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