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See Loss See Also Love

By Yukiko Tominaga

See Loss See Also Love Contemporary literature

See Loss See Also Love

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"A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, as she wrestles with grief, loss, and-strangest of all, joy. Shortly after her husband Levi's untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance. Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko's fluctuating emotional states-sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers. While freshly mourning Levi, Kyoko and Alex confront another death-that of Alex's pet betta fish. Kyoko and Bubbe take a road trip to a psychic and discover that Kyoko carries bad karma. On visits back to Japan, Kyoko and her mother clash over how best to connect Alex with his Japanese heritage, and as Alex enters his teenage years and brings his first girlfriend home, Kyoko lets her imagination run wild as she worries about teen pregnancy. In this openhearted and surprising novel about the choices and relationships that sustain us, there are times where Kyoko is lonely but never alone and others in which she is alone but never lonely. Through these moments, she learns how much more there is to herself in the wake of total and unexpected upheaval. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is a testament to how grief isn't a linear process but is a spiraling awareness of the vast range of human emotion we experience every day"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2025-05-13
Publication Date:
2025-05-13
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
166803168X
ISBN13:
9781668031681
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
184 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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