Goodbye Tsugumi

Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a normal family.

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An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.

Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university.

When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.

Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life's most brutal moments'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I've ever read'

Contributor: Michael Emmerich (Translated by)

Translator: Michael Emmerich

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