Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs , comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. Hana has nothing – she’s fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting an