Goodbye Tsugumi (-, 2003)

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN‘The voice of young Japan.’ INDEPENDENT‘The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.’ JAPAN TIMES‘[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.'' SPECTATOR An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university.When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life''s most brutal moments''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I''ve ever read''