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This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who share a house after the outbreak of war before going their separate ways once it is over; the man who lives in a succession of rooftop apartments; the diverging lives of two brothers who are raised as latch-key kids by factory workers; the old ramen restaurant that endures despite the demolition of all surrounding buildings; people who watch a new type of spaceship lift off from a pier that once belonged to an island resort; and more.These 34 tales from all over the planet have the compulsive power of news reports, narrated in a crisp yet allegorical style.

Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.

Bits of Time is a compilation of Gail Cushman's bi-weekly laugh-out-loud blogs, filled with fun, laughter, and nostalgia. The series of two-minute reads glimpses the past, present, and future of life as she sees it.In the style of Erma Bombeck and Paul Harvey, Gail Cushman reveals her take on life as a senior citizen, growing old with dignity, frustration, and enthusiasm. She unfolds the life journeys of the forty million Americans with graying hair and wrinkly skin who live and love among us.Cushman says they are stories of nothing, yet it is the nothingness that makes these stories glow.They are a part of, yet different from, Cushman's Wrinkly Bits series.