From the back cover:
These wonderful stories are based firmly in realities that are recognizable the world over: for Yuko Tsushima's women clean bathrooms, worry about teenage children and live emotional lives full of contradictions.
A young single mother on an outing to the seaside comes face to face with her own frustrations and the resentment of her children; a woman wiats up for her teenage daughter, refusing to admit to herself that her child has run away; another tries desperately to hold on to a private life in the face of her controlling male relatives.
Yuko Tsushima has won a number of literary prizes, including the Yasunari Kawabata prize 1983 for "The Silent Traders", included in this volume.

The Women's Press, 1988. ISBN 0704340879. Selected and Translated by Geraldine Harcourt. Cover illustration by Yukki Yaura.

Reviewed by The New York Times.

Reserved for Samrana's Japanese Author VBB.

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