“This is the real magic of “Heaven,” which shows us how to think about morality as an ongoing, dramatic activity. It can be maddening and ruinous and isolating. But it can also be shared, enlivened through writing and conversation, and momentarily redeemed through unheroic acts of solidarity, which come more naturally to the children in “Heaven” than to most grownups here on earth.” ~Merve Emre

A Japanese Novelist’s Tale of Bullying and Nietzsche https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/a-japanese-novelists-tale-of-bullying-and-nietzsche

I’m obsessed with HEAVEN by Mieko Kawakami

— I reread it 3 times. #bookstr