The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth "There's a matter-of-factness to Yoshimoto's prose that would feel stultifying if it weren't so mischievous...Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention" --New York Times Book Review...