Thank you to Astrahouse for the gifted copy

SUNRISE is a collection of stories set in Japan that examines the visible and invisible forces and their effects on generations of women. I love the focus on the inner workings of Japanese women's lives that traverse time. Most of the stories are short and have a slice-of-life feel.

A couple that stands out to me are Book Burning—I'm pretty sure the last book burned mentioned in this one is Norwegian Wood, Precious Stones—a feverish exploration of our family connection, and Shedding—a mysterious disease that causes people to lose their speech and different women's reactions to their symptoms.

The blurb mentioned interconnected stories, but I couldn't quite figure out the connections between the chapters