![]() ![]() People from My Neighborhood isn’t a conventional book of linked short stories, and it is the relationships between each story that make the collection pop. It is with Kanae that the narrator explores her budding sexuality the two wish “to grow breasts as quickly as possible” so they can “fight aliens, wicked religious sects, and other forces of evil.” ![]() She frequently drives the action through her “delinquent” behavior. Many of the book’s strongest relationships are with the narrator’s close friend Kanae. Two and three pages at a time, the reader begins to see the tangled network of ties that bind the people from the neighborhood together. For a volume of short stories, the relationships between characters are remarkably strong. ![]() Kawakami Hiromi’s collection of micro-fiction, itself only 120-pages long, is about the members of the close-knit community in an exurban Tokyo town. P eople from My Neighborhood is a book about relationships. ![]()
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