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The Lake ReviewBanana Yoshimoto is unique. I don't know of any other writer who explores the spaces in the human heart with such delicacy and accuracy. This book, which was published in Japan in 2005, follows the love affair of Chihiro, a young girl whose mother's death both freed her from the censorious small town in which she grew up and also cast her adrift, rootless, in Tokyo; and Nakajima, a very secretive and tightly wound young man who endured something terrible as a child. Both of them are damaged; both of them are needy but in many ways unwilling to risk opening up to anyone. Chihiro, an artist, is hired to paint a mural on the wall of an elementary school that is in danger of being torn down, and as Nakajima's story unfolds, Chihiro translates elements of it into art, in the lighthearted form of monkeys painted especially for children's eyes. I don't know of another writer in the world who would come up with such pitch-perfect alchemy, not only bringing fear out of the shadows but painting it in primary colors in bright daylight. From KITCHEN on, I've devoured every book Banana Yoshimoto has written, and this is no exception. My only complaint is that we had to wait six years to read THE LAKE in English.The Lake Overview

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