FABclub

FABclub meets once a month to discuss books by female authors. We read a variety of genres. Everyone is welcome to join!

This month we are discussing People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami.

People From My Neighborhood is a 2016 short story collection by Hiromi Kawakami. In thirty-six interlinked stories, the book explores the lives of people in a neighborhood outside of Tokyo. It follows the lives of several characters in a neighborhood through twenty-six stories, specifically focusing on the mundane, quotidian details about their experiences. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the book "engaging and winsome". Publishers Weekly called it a "magical and engaging collection". The New York Times appreciated how "Kawakami's style traffics in brevity, giving us images distilled to their core, sentences that go directly to the heart" while also commending the book for its "brightness, a kind of love and familiarity.