Cassie McCullough

And it's all about the intricacies and the kind of stories related to her sister who comes to Tokyo, who wants to have this thing done.

But the second book, the second half of the book is more about this woman who wants to have a child.

And she goes on to a quest trying to figure out how to do it.

Because in Japan, as in a lot of other countries, if you're a single woman and you want a child, it's very hard.

It's very complicated.

But she also always asks the question, why do I need a child?

Why do I want a child?

And she asks around her friends to get advice.

And some people that she gets advice from said, you're selfish.

You're a single person.

Why bring children?

a child into this cruel world and don't haven't you had suffered enough and in your life with poverty and all that stuff i won't say if she gets a child or not but i find it a bit strange though when i read it that if all this kind of research that she does

It's not like she learned something or that she can contemplate the information that she gets on this quest.

It's almost like a blank page.

And you say, but God, didn't you listen to what that person just said?

And because then she goes again and asking the same questions.

So it feels almost likely repetitive.

That was my almost my only criticism against the book, because I think

It is brilliantly written, and it's a fantastic way to kind of recreate the atmosphere of Tokyo isolation in this apartment that she lives.

This seems so incredibly real, almost like documentary style.