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Fault Lines: A Novel
How do you choose between the life you have (complete with charming husband and very cute children) and the life you think you want with someone else entirely? OK, maybe your husband could work less and help more at home, but do you really want to pull the rug out from everything you've made in the last ten years? This bright, thoughtful novel set in Tokyo asks plenty of universal questions about what we need and what we want in ways that fans of Sally Rooney's novels, Emma Straub's All Adults Here or Miranda Cowley Heller's The Paper Palace won't want to miss.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
"What is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy." -- New York Times Book Review
"The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami." -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome
Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself ...