I this book because...
Everyone is going to die. Everyone knows that, and very few deal with it.
Even though we know it’s going to happen, thinking about it and preparing is always postponed. This book introduces us to a uniquely meaningful way to deal with death. It is also a love story.
It was first written in Italian, translated to English, and is set in Japan. All these make for a different and very useful view of how to deal with death.
2 authors picked The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Laura Imai Messina’s international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain.
Then one day she hears…