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Considering the Many Forms a Family Can Take in Japanese Literature

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By Laurel Taylor
| Literary Hub Verified
Growing up, my mother and I often joked that I was a thirty-year-old in a ten-year-old’s skin. That happens when you’re an only child with a tendency toward bookishness—you spend all your time around adults, read much more than the average fourth-grader, and generally comport yourself with the same calm and poise you imagine adults have.
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Our 7 Most Favorable Reviews in April 2026

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By Mieko Kawakami, Laurel Taylor, Hitomi Yoshio
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
Paradiso 17: A Novel by Hannah Lillith Assadi (Knopf). Reviewed by Mike Maggio. “In many ways, the novel, while telling the story of the author’s father, relates the broader story of the Palestinian diaspora: the displacement, the state of being dispossessed, the sense of alienation, the absence of roots. It’s as if the plight of the Palestinians has been condensed into a single individual whose life mirrors the suffering of all his compatriots.
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Extract: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio

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By Mieko Kawakami, Laurel Taylor, Hitomi Yoshio
| Wasafiri Magazine Verified
Read an extract from Mieko Kawakami's latest book Sisters in Yellow – translated from Japanese by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio – a noir novel set in 1990s Tokyo. The story follows a young teenager, Hana, as she leaves a rough home, opens a bar with three other women, and falls into the city's criminal underbelly. Part One Ran carried herself differently now than she had twenty years ago.
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