September 27, 2024
No one walks the fine line between enchantment and shadow quite like Ogawa, a tension she strikes with such precision in Mina’s Matchbox. Just like Tomoko, the reader can’t help but be infatuated with Mina, her eclectic family and the beautiful home they inhabit, all the while unable to shake the feeling that there is some sort of ghost hot on everyone’s heels. Delicacy shrouds so much here, it feels like the deftest slight of hand. Every translation we have of Ogawa’s work is a gift.
–Claire N., Browsers Bookshop, Olympia, WA
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