β Pearce, Lawrence
π Fiction
π
2013
π Juju Books
π English
β 75 KB
π 1 views
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Hikikomori and the Rental Sister
β Scribed by Jeff Backhaus
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1616201886
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Thomas Tessler has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives right in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leaving his hideout only occasionally, in the wee hours of the night, to pick up food at the grocery store around the corner from their Manhattan apartment. Unable to cope with a devastating loss, Thomas has become isolated and withdrawn. He is hikikomori.
Desperate for one last chance to salvage their life together, Silke hires Megumi, a young Japanese immigrant attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon, to lure Thomas back into the world. Fleeing from her own shattering experience, Megumi has buried her pain in a fast life spent in nightclubs with nameless men. Now she will try to help Thomas and Silke as a "rental sister," as they are known in Japan. At first Thomas remains steadfast and sequestered, but as he grows to trust Megumi, a deepening and sensual relationship...
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