TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yoshimoto,Banana
AU  - Yoneda,Asa
TI  - Moshi Moshi
SN  - 9781619027862
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Translated from the Japanese
N2  - "In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying-unsuccessfully-to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message to her through these dreams? With the lightness of touch and surreal detachment that are the hallmarks of her writing, Banana Yoshimoto turns a potential tragedy into a poignant coming-of-age ghost story and a life-affirming homage to the healing powers of community, food, and family. Published in 2010 in Japanese in Tokyo, it has sold over 29,000 copies there so far."--
ER  -