Johan Gabrielsen

It kind of really hits me.

And then

The men are basically non-existent.

It's the drunk dad, it's a boyfriend that's very much in the periphery, but there's basically no men.

There is this very tight family of women, the mother, the sister, and the younger sister who is the writer.

And it's a beautiful way to depict friendship and female friendships, really.

And I really love this book because I just never met a Japan in such a way before.

She has come to get a boob job, basically.

And

It's that she tried to talk, justify to her little sister why she needs this boob job.

And this kind of boob job really becomes about something else as well.

It becomes about how Japanese women, because she works as a hostess.

in a bar, and it's about keeping up her appeal for the men that comes to this bar, and she feels slightly threatened about the younger women that is hired in this bar, so she wants to keep on her attractiveness to get money, because they're also poor, so it's kind of a desperate thing, like she wants to increase her beauty so she could stay

And in this bar to work.

And it's quite sad in a way because it's also you feel that she's completely a victim of male lust or men's demands, really.

I mean, she's about men's demands, about going to a bar, hanging out with beautiful women and then go home to them.

I think most likely that she is someone who gets into the bar and she socializes with them, gets them to buy drinks, makes them feel good about themselves.

But it's not really clear if she goes and also sleeps with these men.

And I don't think so.

I mean, I've been in Japan quite a lot, and it is this kind of non-sexual kind of relationship that you have.