Dead end memories, Banana Yoshimoto

Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived pre-schooler

Vienna1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum

she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize

Knowing he was dying

He marries into the Tulsi family

and contributes to the massive aid effort to clean up a shattered Haiti

The Pasteur Institute

And I had been thinking about all the things I would tell myself if I could call myself when I was fourteen

outwitting them

“The book casts a curiously sweet spell

their bond blossoms into something far deeper—despite the displeasure of Achilles’ mother Thetis

Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business