So we look to the sky : a novel

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So we look to the sky : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Language

eng

Summary

Sexually explicit and searingly honest, So We Look to the Sky is a novel told in five linked stories that begins with an affair between a student and a woman ten years his senior, who picks him up for cosplay sex at a comics convention. Their scandalous liaison, which the woman's husband makes public by posting secretly taped video online, frames all of the stories, but each explores a different aspect of the life passages and hardships ordinary people face. A teenager experimenting with sex and then, perhaps, experiencing love and loss; a young, anime-obsessed wife bullied by her mother-in-law to produce the child she and her husband cannot conceive; a high-school girl, spurned by the student, realizing that being cute and fertile is all others expect of her; the student's best friend, who lives in the projects and is left alone to support and care for his voracious senile grandmother; and the student's mother, a divorced single parent and midwife, who guides women bringing new life into this world and must rescue her son, crushed by the twin blows of public humiliation and loss, from giving up on his own. Narrating each story in the distinctive voice of its protagonist, Misumi Kubo weaves themes including sex, fertility, the female body, and the bullying and social pressures that leave young people feeling burdened and helpless into a profoundly original novel that lingers in the mind as a vivid, indelible affirmation of the unquellable force of life

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

895.6/6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult

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