27. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

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You Might Hate This Book

Hannah Graves and Stephanie Pearson

48 episodes

9 months ago

Hi! We're co-hosts Hannah and Stephanie. We're both avid readers, but we have VERY different tastes. Each week one of us will recommend a book to the other - a book we loved that we think our co-host might hate. We’ll read the recommended book, then come back together to discuss it - and maybe fight about it. Was it as awful as we expected? Did we secretly love it? Did we throw it across the room? Join us each week as we argue about what makes a good book, and broaden our horizons. Maybe you'll find a book you love (or hate).

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27. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

You Might Hate This Book

1 hour 1 minute 8 seconds

2 years ago

27. Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

To get back at Stephanie for assigning her a sad book, Hannah assigns Stephanie Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station. Will Stephanie find its bleak story as upsetting as Hannah found The Four Winds?

Kazu has lived his whole life in poverty, resulting in his last place of residence being a makeshift tent outside Ueno Station in Tokyo. As a ghost, he continues to reside in this busy park and must now contemplate the life–or lack thereof–he left behind. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss the issues of poverty and isolation that this book attempts to highlight, while also trying to discern which types of “sadness” they can each handle in a book.

Resources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/books/yu-miri-tokyo-ueno-station.html

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2020/06/25/tokyo-ueno-station/

https://electricliterature.com/a-ghost-haunts-the-tokyo-olympics/

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