An I-Novel Natsume Soseki and New York

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Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery

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one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied

When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage

An I-Novel Natsume Soseki and New YorkMinae Mizumuras An I Novel is a semi autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on the English language and American culture. After a phone call from her older sister reminds her that it is the twentieth anniversary of their familys arrival in New York, she spends the day reflecting in