Fault Lines: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award

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I would recommend to some who likes a better class of chic-lit with a half-decent language style and more concerned about feelings than fashion. There’s so much humor and warmth in this story, and I appreciated that the slow-build relationship between her and Kiyoshi focused far more on their friendship than the expected stuff. Is it normal to fluctuate so quickly between feeling tender toward your husband and fervently wishing him a violent death? I don't understand how the production company can't bother to find a Japanese descent actress/voice actor to read the part? Once it finally got to the part about the earthquakes, I found myself pretty much skimming the pages, so that I could be finished with it.

Even though I found it hard to really identify with any of the three main characters, I liked this book a lot. She has a part time job as a Inter Cultural Consultant, a hardworking husband, two beautiful children and an apartment that is amazing.She feels trapped by the world that everyone else tells her she should embrace, and simply being someone’s wife and someone’s mother is not enough. It talks about motherhood, parenting, marriage, identity, love and passion, but above all Fault Lines was completely and undoubtedly Matzuki’s story, and I thought she was fabulous. I am still pondering over the title, ‘Fault Lines’, is it a reference to the numerous earthquakes that rock Japan almost daily, or is it referring to her marriage and the lines that have begun to appear? Wilson did a decent job but the first third of the audiobook was difficult to understand for me because the narrator often mumbled or slurred her words when the character, Mizuki, was saying something sarcastic or droll - which was often!

Itami’s narrator tells us late in the book about a revelatory year spent perfecting her English in America. What a wonderful review Clare 🤩 I could feel your love for this book resonating through me as I was reading! Mizuki is a Japanese housewife married to Tatsuya and living in a luxury apartment with their two beautiful children in the buzz, excitement and sparkle of Tokyo.What initially seems like a negative view of marriage, commitment and fidelity becomes so much more in Itami’s skilled hands and piercing gaze. The university administration attempted to suppress the column, and ultimately fired her, and the column garnered national attention. Is her relationship with Kiyoshi the key to happiness, or just the seismic shift she needs to confront what her life has become before it's too late? If you’re interested in mothers’ perspectives, Japanese culture, or just discovering a new literary talent, it’s well worth the short time investment to read this story. I appreciated this how Emily Itami showed the protagonist’s unhappy feelings about domesticity, married life, and having kids.

It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry. Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. There have been days that I resent my husband, that my kid drives me out of my mind, and it takes every bit of my patience just to hold it together and not scream at the top of my lungs.Set in Tokyo, the novel begins with housewife Mizuki debating jumping off the balcony of her highrise apartment where she lives with her husband and two children. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material.