- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, women, Fiction, absurdist, Man-woman relationships
"Asa's husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family's home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas.
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Contemporary, contemplative, open-ended and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- 小山田浩子, David Boyd
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation, New Directions, Granta Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9781803510620
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