Woman Running in the Mountains (New York Review Books Classics)

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Woman Running in the Mountains (New York Review Books Classics)Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a

she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor

and her professional life is going nowhere

It’s the year 2024

the town’s young sheriff

But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo

If you're seeking to find your purpose

Lucy’s brother

and she belongs after all

Christopher Robin and

His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders

” —Lori Gottlieb

Rima and Mama paint their own world in their new home