the phone booth at the edge of the world by Laura Imai Messina
A gorgeous novel about an existing place in Japan, a phone booth in a beautiful garden on a remote rocky place by the sea, where people who have lost their dear ones can go and talk to them through this "wind phone".
Yui, a radio talk show host, lost her daughter and mother in the 2011 tsunami and is slipping thourgh the cracks of life. When she hears of the wind phone she travels there, but can't bring herself to pick up the phone, she just walks thourgh the tranqility of the garden. n her frst journey there she meets Takeshi, a grieving wodower with a young daughter at home, and slowly a friendshp that may turn into love evolves.
This is a novel of grief and beauty, love and loss, and the magic of solace and the human earning for eachother.
Yui, a radio talk show host, lost her daughter and mother in the 2011 tsunami and is slipping thourgh the cracks of life. When she hears of the wind phone she travels there, but can't bring herself to pick up the phone, she just walks thourgh the tranqility of the garden. n her frst journey there she meets Takeshi, a grieving wodower with a young daughter at home, and slowly a friendshp that may turn into love evolves.
This is a novel of grief and beauty, love and loss, and the magic of solace and the human earning for eachother.
