Included in The New Yorkers Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction where realityamp10 myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender biology amp10and destinyFrom the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories each a masterpiece of transformation infused with humor sex and the universal search for love and beautyin a world where the laws of time and space and even species boundaries dont apply Meet a shapeshifting con man a goddess who uses sex to control her followers an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit a woman who falls in love with her 400yearold ancestor a kitchen god with three faces in a weaselinfested apartment block moles who provide underground sanctuary for humans who have lost the will to live a man nurtured through life by his seven extraordinary sisters and a woman who is handed from husband to husband until she is finally able to return to the sea
