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A review by ameliegoddardmc
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
5.0
A beautiful book comprised of existential musings of a working-class Japanese woman, navigating through life in search of content and connection.
Breasts and Eggs follows Natsuko as she steers the mundane struggle of growing older as a woman, and the difficulties being asexual when expected to find a partner, alongside her seemingly stagnant career as a writer.
This book led me to feel such an odd sense of nostalgia and comfort in the mundanities of what it is to be so self aware to the point it encompasses you, this a very raw and personal exploration of what it is to be, ultimately, lonely as a woman.
Every second of this book was worth reading, please take the chance to lose yourself in it.
Breasts and Eggs follows Natsuko as she steers the mundane struggle of growing older as a woman, and the difficulties being asexual when expected to find a partner, alongside her seemingly stagnant career as a writer.
This book led me to feel such an odd sense of nostalgia and comfort in the mundanities of what it is to be so self aware to the point it encompasses you, this a very raw and personal exploration of what it is to be, ultimately, lonely as a woman.
Every second of this book was worth reading, please take the chance to lose yourself in it.