Mieko Kawakami profile

[MsAmerica]

I know there are some wide-ranging readers here, so this might interest someone.

‘Breasts and Eggs’ Made Her a Feminist Icon. She Has Other Ambitions.
By Joshua Hunt

‘In a promotional photograph advertising the book, she looked like a pop star, dressed in heels and a short skirt while leaning against a concrete pillar in a parking garage. Her account of contemporary poverty and womanhood resonated deeply in Japan, where single mothers and divorced women are still ostracized, maternity leave is virtually nonexistent and most married women can’t have an abortion without permission from their husbands.

www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/magazine/mieko-kawakami.html

silk-news.com/2023/02/07/magazine/mieko-kawakami-is-a-feminist-icon-in-japan-she-has-other-ambitions/

Can't read either of those links sadly. I've read ''Breast and Eggs' and 'Ms Icecream' which I found less convincing (I need to stop reading books with a child the same age as one of mine as the narrator because I get hung up on how inauthentic the voice is). Got 'Heaven' on my TBR shelf. She's such an interesting writer, her books are all different and even 'Breast and Eggs' is about much more than the obvious feminist themes. She's from Osaka isn't she and she includes dialect in her novels which hasn't really made it into the English translations.

Really, you can't read either link? The NYT has a paywall, which is why I try to include an alternative.

Try this:

dnyuz.com/2023/02/07/breasts-and-eggs-made-her-a-feminist-icon-she-has-other-ambitions/