Review by emergencily - Moshi Moshi

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4.0

Very sweet read and not too long of a novel
About a woman whose father commits suicide in a pact with another woman he was having an affair with
Focuses on her grief, her healing and her relationship with her mother
Its also a love letter to the location it's set in, a neighbourhood in Tokyo that's today slowly being gentrified. I've been to Shimokita myself and it's a charming neighbourhood but definitely see the effects of that gentrification
The book's focus on the beauty in small everyday moments and routines is really lovely and refreshing
Gets too heavy handed near the end and feels like it's beating you over the head preaching trite bits of life wisdom at you (maybe it suffers from the translation?), but it's overall a sweet feel good novel about grief and recovery and growing up
I liked the bits of magical realism that the presence of the ghosts brings to the book