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02826aam a2200361 i 4500 001 DA037E64084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 231215s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023046737 020 $a 166803168X 020 $a 9781668031681 020 $a 1668031671 020 $a 9781668031674 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1405187000 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3620.O558 $b S44 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231215 100 1 $a Tominaga, Yukiko, $e author. 245 10 $a See: loss. see also: love / $c Yukiko Tominaga. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 260 $a New York : $b Scribner, $c 2024. 263 $a 2405 300 $a 243 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, as she wrestles with grief, loss, and-strangest of all, joy. Shortly after her husband Levi's untimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to celebrate her now husbandless life. Always beside her is Alex, who lives confidently, no matter the circumstance. Four sections of vignettes reflect Kyoko's fluctuating emotional states-sometimes ugly, other times funny, but always uniquely hers. While freshly mourning Levi, Kyoko and Alex confront another death-that of Alex's pet betta fish. Kyoko and Bubbe take a road trip to a psychic and discover that Kyoko carries bad karma. On visits back to Japan, Kyoko and her mother clash over how best to connect Alex with his Japanese heritage, and as Alex enters his teenage years and brings his first girlfriend home, Kyoko lets her imagination run wild as she worries about teen pregnancy. In this openhearted and surprising novel about the choices and relationships that sustain us, there are times where Kyoko is lonely but never alone and others in which she is alone but never lonely. Through these moments, she learns how much more there is to herself in the wake of total and unexpected upheaval. See: Loss. See Also: Love. is a testament to how grief isn't a linear process but is a spiraling awareness of the vast range of human emotion we experience every day"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Japanese heritage $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA037E64084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search