Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award

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We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. At any rate, the story is written in English (à la "Queen Elizabeth, pass the teapot please" English) and is rife with British slang. Both parties are aware that the affair has a sell-by date, and even as Mizuki falls for Kiyoshi, it is obvious that part of the attraction is the freedom he represents, something that might not last if she were to leave her husband. I love that Mizuki's daughter will have a chance to spread her wings in Paris - just as Mizuki's father had done for her.

When Mitzuki starts to spend time with Kiyoshi, they explore the city together, and she sees the world with fresh eyes. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever and universal in its exploration of love, family and identity. This whole book felt a bit like I was being given an insider’s glimpse into a culture so foreign to my own via her story, and Itami does a wonderful job blending these types of details into her story in an accessible and seamless way for Western readers. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.Instead, what’s intriguing about Fault Lines is its shrewd commentary on Japan’s societal expectations of women as either sex objects or dutiful mothers. Seemingly endless paragraphs are spent discussing feelings and how these feelings make them feel and how these feelings make them act and how they feel about how these feelings are making them act or feel or …. I happened to be in close proximity to one after my sister wanted to go out one night, so we randomly decided to walk in and just take a look around.

She has a part time job as a Inter Cultural Consultant, a hardworking husband, two beautiful children and an apartment that is amazing. In this thoughtful, compassionate book Karl Pillemer shows that it need not be permanent and his perceptive, gentle guidance lights the way to reconciliation. Now more than ever, today’s mothers are met with a constant onslaught of online perfection and ideals even before most of us have managed to get dressed and eat breakfast.Fault Lines’ is a refreshing new read told from the perspective of Mizuki, a woman who “has it all” in modern Tokyo. How about page 321 when Merritt is getting ready to go back home and her sister is going to clean up the lodge she stayed in she says "Maybe I should hide my dirty underwear where he'll never find it. I do think this is worth a read; pick it up at your local library, stare at that beautiful cover, savor it, and then decide if you want a physical copy after that. Mizuki alternates between reminiscing about her past marital joys and thanking her lucky stars each time she has a quiet night with no forced romance between her and husband, waiting for the moment when the minutiae of parenthood becomes second nature. Set in Tokyo, Emily Itami’s highly readable debut uses infidelity to consider motherhood, cultural pressure and the end of youth.