From Midjourney
One of our favourite writers, Greg Frey, recommends his reads from 2024:
FICTION
Kitchen – Banana Yashimoto
Before Murakami became the go-to for surreal Japanese fiction Yashimoto was blazing the trail. There’s something about her gentle, minimalist style that I adore. This is a book that’s dealing with characters at risk of losing themselves or perhaps lost already in grief. The tone of it is somewhere between dissasociation and innocence; stripped back, straightforward observations of life and the people in it; a model of mindful attenttiveness as a response to trauma and escape from cycles of doom; but something else as well which I don’t fully understand…