Goodbye Tsugumi

In this "witty, perceptive novel", a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood (Elle).

Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong ...