A Perfect Day to Be Alone Audiobook By Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood -translated by cover art

A Perfect Day to Be Alone

A Novel

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A Perfect Day to Be Alone

By: Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood -translated by
Narrated by: Mirai Mirai
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The English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations.

When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chizu moves in with seventy-one-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative, taking a room in her ramshackle Tokyo home, with its two resident cats and the persistent rattle of passing trains.

Living their lives in imperfect symmetry, they establish an uneasy alliance, stress tested by Chizu's flashes of youthful spite. As the four seasons pass, Chizu navigates a series of tedious part-time jobs and unsatisfying relationships, before eventually finding her feet and salvaging a fierce independence from her solitude.

A Perfect Day to Be Alone is a moving, microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak. With flashes of deadpan humor and a keen eye for poignant detail, Aoyama chronicles the painful process of breaking free from the moorings of youth.

©2007 Nanae Aoyama; English translation copyright 2024 by Jesse Kirkwood (P)2025 Tantor Media
Coming of Age Genre Fiction Women's Fiction

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