Mina's matchbox
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"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family's pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion-Tomoko's dignified and devoted aunt, her German grandmother, and her dashing, charming uncle who confidently sits as the family's patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko's cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko's life, which she looks back on briefly from adulthood at the novel's end.? Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand-her uncle's mysterious absences, her German grandmother's experience of WWII, and her aunt's misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina's Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time-and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse"--
Available copies
- 5 of 20 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31000151346106 |
Checked out 09/12/2024 |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31005153434404 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31006151985686 |
Checked out 09/12/2024 |
| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31008152700437 |
Available - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31009154334779 |
Checked out 08/28/2024 |
| Harrison Public Library | OGAWA, Y. (Text) New Fiction |
31010300358506 |
Available - |
| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | OGAWA, YOKO (Text) New Book |
31016151961413 |
Checked out 09/12/2024 |
| Irvington Public Library | FIC OGAWA, Y (Text) New Fiction |
31012154677387 |
Checked out 09/17/2024 |
| John C. Hart Memorial Library | OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31030300062106 |
Checked out 09/12/2024 |
| Katonah Village Library | FICTION OGAWA (Text) New Fiction |
31013152068942 |
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