Mina's Matchbox (2024) by Y?ko Ogawa

Mina's Matchbox (2024)
A novel by Y?ko Ogawa

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

¡°Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina¡¯s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.¡± ¡ªRuth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt¡¯s family. Tomoko¡¯s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home¡ªand handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company¡ªare symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family¡¯s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion¡ªTomoko¡¯s dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family¡¯s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko¡¯s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling.

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