Gifted (2024) by Suzumi Suzuki

Gifted (2024)
A novel by Suzumi Suzuki

A subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter¡¯s final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo¡¯s red-light district.

Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted¡ªSuzumi Suzuki¡¯s first novel to be translated into English¡ªoffers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.

In the last days of her mother¡¯s life, a young woman living in Tokyo¡¯s red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection.

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