![]() ![]() ![]() READ MORE: Skyward Inn (Aliya Whiteley) – Book Review So opens There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, simultaneously a treatise on the world of work and an exploration of what can happen when you feel that your life is stagnating, the malaise of a thousand quarter-life crises metastasizing in Kikuko Tsumura’s sensitive, insightful, and ultimately transformative take on the floating helplessness that can affect anyone it goes without saying that it feels oddly, beautifully timely for staying afloat in the midst of a life-changing global pandemic. In sprawling modern-day Japan, a young woman observes a man through binoculars, taking note of his habits – his tastes in snacks (oven fresh cookies!), his taste in TV shows (NCIS!), the secrets hidden in his DVD collection (who can say) – for the behest of a mysterious agency. ![]()
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