Days At The Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa is the author of Days At The Morisaki Bookshop. Eric Ozawa is the person who translated it from Japanese to English. This fascinating tale is about a young woman, Takako, is jilted at work by the guy she thought was going to propose marriage. Instead he tells her he is going to propose to another woman in the office. She is devastated. She quits her job and takes to her bed. Her mother, concerned, gives her a choice to either come back home to her parents or go and live with her Uncle above his bookshop. She chooses the bookshop. She works a few hours every day but otherwise she sleeps and sleeps and sleeps. With the kind influence of her very patient Uncle she begins to recover. He takes her to a local coffee shop where she meets other people and makes some friends. She, never a reader before, takes his advice and reads a book. She she is an avid book reader and can make suggestions to the customers. This story is about familial love and the power of books to unravel a tortured soul.