Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award

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It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife married to Tatsuya and living in a luxury apartment with their two beautiful children in the buzz, excitement and sparkle of Tokyo. She recognizes she has a beautiful apartment, with a hardworking husband, and two perfect children, yet she is unhappy. She has a beautiful home and family that most people dream of, and her husband, while distant, is a good man. Mizuki is a wife, a mother, and a former singer, now leading a quiet life in Tokyo, playing the role she's supposed to play.

I love that Mizuki's daughter will have a chance to spread her wings in Paris - just as Mizuki's father had done for her. Once in a while you try something new, sometimes it doesn't pay off but sometimes it does, i loved this beautifully written novel by Emily Itami, i cannot believe this is a debut novel, it waFor me it's the strong sense of place and Japanese culture that makes this short novel a worthy addition to the never-ending body of fiction on marital and domestic dissatisfaction. Their sixteen year old daughter has growing pains, and Merritt's bohemian younger sister, Laura, who is an actress on the wane in California is a constant worry.

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