Inheritance From Mother
By Minae Mizumura
An interesting book in the first half, and then about halfway through, it totally changed. Strange.
The first half is about two Japanese sisters as they wait for their elderly mother to die. The relive their lives, and how their mother treated them so differently, and reflect on their current lives, as they go through the stages of disease, treatment, old age homes and hospitals with their mother.
Once their mother dies, the novel changes. Mitsuki, the younger daughter, goes off to a hotel at a scenic lake resort in Japan to recover from the stress of the death. There, she meets a cast of characters, and somehow there is a rumour that someone is going to commit suicide. Weird, to say the least, however, Mitsuki is able to think and make some big changes in her life, helped by the inheritance from her mother.
Rating: 3/4
Recommendation: An interesting look about the death process in Japan, and the role of women in modern Japanese society.
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