Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami general fiction A mother to two small

A mother to two small girls

For Lila is unstoppable

foul-mouthed rows and white-knuckle panic

and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami general fiction A mother to two small'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' On a hot summers day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty year old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makikos teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied