Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in aAmodern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons:Ashe does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket,Avisits friends and gossips with neighbours. Tracing herAconversations and interactions with her family and friendsAas they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzingAinternal monologue,AMild VertigoAexplores the dizzyingAreality of being unable to locate oneself in the endlessAstream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to aAmiddle-class home, where both everything and nothingAhappens. With shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena FerranteAand Lucy Ellmann, this verbally acrobatic novel by theAesteemed novelist, essayist and critic Mieko Kanai ?” whoseAwork enjoys a cult status in Japan ?” is a disconcerting andAradically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stageAcapitalist society.; 176 pages; 21/06/2023