From a librarian’s lust for love to the mystery of a missing sister, and exploring the experiences of a high school girl in therapy and a ten-year-old living through her parents’ separation, these short fictions lead us on a dark and at times buoyant journey with a diverse cast of characters who interweave throughout the stories.
Intelligent and subversive, interconnected and intriguing, ‘Life and Death in Nakano-ku’ is a genre-defying collection of tales from the strange and disturbing but also playful mind of Michael Goodsell.