I immediately feel bad that I couldn’t help thinking about Haruki Murakami while listening to this one. It’s a somewhat uncomfortable truth that while reading a contemporary Japanese writer, of thinking of the most famous Japanese writer. But in the last year I’ve read a handful of other Japanese writers, so I do feel better about it. But the thing is, this is definitely similar to Murakami. It’s a small novel about domestic spaces, particularly a small set of houses that “share” a cat who […]