{"product_id":"inaba-mayumi-mornings-without-mii-9780374614782","title":"Mornings Without Mii","description":"INDIE BESTSELLER A New Yorker Best Book of the Year So Far A Must-Read: Literary Hub ¿ The Millions ¿ Kirkus Reviews ¿ Shelf Awareness ¿ BookPage ¿ BookBub \"A great love story.\" -Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker \"I have never read a book quite like this. Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.\" -Elif Batuman, author of Either\/Or Mornings Without Mii is a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat. On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond. Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. From the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: it's a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.","brand":"Macmillan USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53403012038998,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780374614782_1_221733a9-1623-42c1-a526-6d6d36a38129.jpg?v=1777982726","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/inaba-mayumi-mornings-without-mii-9780374614782","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}