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From the author of Kowloon Generic Romance and After the Rain comes a collection of ten short stories originally published between 2007 and 2017. The stories center on women navigating the complexities of life, identity, relationships, and sex with a frank, humorous, and distinctly female perspective.
In Everyday, a young man named Yohsuke loses his job and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where he picks up a gorgeous woman named Emily. He is shocked to discover that Emily is a trans woman, but she stays, cooks, and cleans, settling them into a peaceful, almost married existence until she asks him to attend her former lover's wedding and punch the groom for a fee.
Liver and Garlic Chives follows Kyouko Sakagami, a popular and outspoken feminist author promoting her book Name Your Vagina. Beneath her confident public persona, she harbors a deep complex about sex and has never experienced climax with a man. She becomes fascinated with her unremarkable forty-something neighbor, Kudou, a doorman at a soapland, leading to an obsessive and inevitable encounter.
The three-part Refreshing Psychedelic introduces Saiko Imawano, an eccentric and socially awkward woman with an eyepatch who starts working at a video rental store. She is immediately overwhelmed by her handsome coworker Natsukawa and expresses her intense paranoia and jealousy through a dramatic letter on her first break.
Thumbelina critiques social media culture through the life of a compulsive smartphone addict who curates a perfect life online for likes while enduring a miserable relationship with a neglectful boyfriend. Her perspective is shaken by the arrival of a new neighbor, a female artist who makes plaster casts of human bodies and refuses to accept anything but the real, genuine version of her.
Connected Night follows Yuumi, a waitress in a pachinko parlor who posts provocative photos of herself online for validation. Living with a boorish boyfriend she plans to leave, she becomes fascinated by a middle-aged woman who stands on a street corner every day. Assuming she is a prostitute, Yuumi intervenes when a man harasses her, only to discover the woman is seeking proof of her own worth as a woman through male attention, forcing Yuumi to confront her own search for validation.
The titular story, Farewell, Daisy, features a distinct, old-school art style and follows Daisy, a sparkly-eyed young witch sent to Earth for high school. She instantly falls for a notorious womanizer named Kenji and gets an education in the ways of the world. Her mother punishes her by sending her to the underworld where there is no phone signal, and she stays with a red ogre named Anthony, opening a beauty parlor for ogres.
In Everyday, a young man named Yohsuke loses his job and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where he picks up a gorgeous woman named Emily. He is shocked to discover that Emily is a trans woman, but she stays, cooks, and cleans, settling them into a peaceful, almost married existence until she asks him to attend her former lover's wedding and punch the groom for a fee.
Liver and Garlic Chives follows Kyouko Sakagami, a popular and outspoken feminist author promoting her book Name Your Vagina. Beneath her confident public persona, she harbors a deep complex about sex and has never experienced climax with a man. She becomes fascinated with her unremarkable forty-something neighbor, Kudou, a doorman at a soapland, leading to an obsessive and inevitable encounter.
The three-part Refreshing Psychedelic introduces Saiko Imawano, an eccentric and socially awkward woman with an eyepatch who starts working at a video rental store. She is immediately overwhelmed by her handsome coworker Natsukawa and expresses her intense paranoia and jealousy through a dramatic letter on her first break.
Thumbelina critiques social media culture through the life of a compulsive smartphone addict who curates a perfect life online for likes while enduring a miserable relationship with a neglectful boyfriend. Her perspective is shaken by the arrival of a new neighbor, a female artist who makes plaster casts of human bodies and refuses to accept anything but the real, genuine version of her.
Connected Night follows Yuumi, a waitress in a pachinko parlor who posts provocative photos of herself online for validation. Living with a boorish boyfriend she plans to leave, she becomes fascinated by a middle-aged woman who stands on a street corner every day. Assuming she is a prostitute, Yuumi intervenes when a man harasses her, only to discover the woman is seeking proof of her own worth as a woman through male attention, forcing Yuumi to confront her own search for validation.
The titular story, Farewell, Daisy, features a distinct, old-school art style and follows Daisy, a sparkly-eyed young witch sent to Earth for high school. She instantly falls for a notorious womanizer named Kenji and gets an education in the ways of the world. Her mother punishes her by sending her to the underworld where there is no phone signal, and she stays with a red ogre named Anthony, opening a beauty parlor for ogres.
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