tales for the train

her name is tamika and her story is like broken glass. shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue.sex, lust, love and hatred . . .a small town in japan holds these secrets. an inspector, a mother, a father, a client and a body that fell from nowhere . . .sometimes there is no logic to life.nine stories - or one tale?"Pain, loneliness, humiliation, and grief underlie these atomized, broken lives." Kirkus Reviews