Yoko Ogawa just knows how to write unnervingly mundane narratives like nobody else. This book is made up of 3 novellas, which all stand on their own, but I did like each one better than the one before it, with the third story being my favourite. This was definitely because it leaned more in the weird and ambigious. I'm very sad that I only have The House Keeper and the Professor and Hotel Iris left on her backlist that have been translated, but I am very much aware that there's a lot that haven't been translated, so everyone get reading and buying her books so we get more of them 💁🏻‍♀️