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A review by cowgirlcrybaby
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
3.0
3.5 - just read in one sitting. A poignant study on homelessness, grief, and Japanese culture. This was incredibly sad and left me feeling extremely empty!!! But was like a slow motion car crash I couldn’t look away from… really elegant and atmospheric at times but overall felt it was just missing something.
“And as I retreated into the future, the only thing I could ever see was the past. It was nothing as sweet as nostalgia or a longing for bygone days, just a constant absence from the present, an anger toward the future.”
“And as I retreated into the future, the only thing I could ever see was the past. It was nothing as sweet as nostalgia or a longing for bygone days, just a constant absence from the present, an anger toward the future.”