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Title: First and LAST Yoshimoto book I will ever read
Review: Throughout the story, characters talk about the powerful and touching nature of the 98th story so much that the reader can't help but feel jealous -- if that story is so transforming, why am I reading this melodramatic piece of drivel? Dialog is flat, narration is trite (more than once the narrator describes another character as "someone I could really talk to"), and the characters are melodramatic and self-absorbed. Plus, the author feels the need to provide a note at the end of the book explaining the character of Sui -- Doesn't Yoshimoto know by now that a good author shouldn't have to explain her characters? Their actions and dialogues should explain themselves! I picked up this book because of all the positive reviews that Yoshimoto and her earlier book received. But this is the first and last Yoshimoto book that I will read.
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