[Signed Copies for Early Birds] Kodama: Living with My Mother Without Understanding / With 3 postcards

About 10 years after her shocking debut work "My Husband's Penis Won't Go In"
A highly anticipated new essay by writer Kodama, who has reached the age of 50!

QJ Store exclusive: Includes a set of 3 limited edition postcards. *Signed by the author on a first-come, first-served basis.

■Details

Wishing for her to "just be normal," I might be the same as my mother, who for years wished for me to "be a normal daughter, a normal woman."

Realizing this, I decided to accept my slightly eccentric mother as she is—

About 10 years after her shocking debut work "My Husband's Penis Won't Go In."
Writer Kodama, who has continued to write about her family, confronts her mother, whom she had been avoiding for a long time, after her father's death. A poignant and humorous collection of essays!

This book includes extensive revisions and new writings from the popular series on the web media "OHTABOOKSTAND."

★QJ Store exclusive bonus:
Purchasers of this book will receive a set of 3 limited edition postcards featuring newly taken photos of Kodama. Plus, a rare autograph will be given on a first-come, first-served basis! (*Signatures are planned for the postcards)

■Table of Contents

Our Respective Fifties / Mother's Garden / My Special Ability / Sei-chan's Shimokitazawa / I Can Go Anywhere / My Parents' Civilization and Enlightenment / Starting Over in the Land of Endings / New Fan Saito, Again / Proxy Circus / In Search of My Grandparents' Sento / The Festival of the First Anniversary of Death / Roomba Hell and the Stingy Old Man / One of Those Lights / Even Ohtani Is Scary / Spring Byproducts / Restaurant Byakuya / Rural Aunt / Closing Up House / Mother's Companion / Living with Mother Without Understanding

■Kodama Profile

Essayist, writer. Her debut work "My Husband's Penis Won't Go In" (Fusosha) won the Yahoo! Search Award for two consecutive years (4th and 5th), and "Koko wa, Oshimai no Chi" (Ohta Publishing) won the 34th Kodansha Essay Award. Other works include "Imada, Oshimai no Chi," "En mo Yukari mo Atta no Da," "Zutto, Oshimai no Chi," "Ken-chan," and "Mushi no Jikan" (co-authored with Madoka Akizuki).

More details about this book will be provided on the Ohta Publishing website and QJWeb

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