{"product_id":"9780374614782","title":"Mornings Without Mii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year So Far\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookBub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A great love story.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sigrid Nunez, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“I have never read a book quite like this. Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.” ―Elif Batuman, author of\u003ci\u003e Either\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMornings Without Mii \u003c\/i\u003eis a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, \u003ci\u003eMornings Without Mii \u003c\/i\u003eis not just a love letter to companionship: it’s a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370064482365,"sku":"9780374614782","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374614782_p0.jpg?v=1771587030","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780374614782","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}