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People from My Neighborhood: Stories

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Masterfully blending the everyday with the supernatural, this collection of stories steeped in Japanese folktales and legends is always clever, often dark and frequently off-kilter. Yet, at its core, there is nothing more noticeable than how deeply human the lives of these characters are.

Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical—"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times).


A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one ...

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