This was an okay book. It was mentioned in a vlog from Malissa (bewareofpity) and sounded interesting. An adult daughter and her mother go on a 2 week trip to Japan. The concept is hard for me to imagine so I wanted to immerse myself in that world. While the characters do bop around Japan, the real plot is their internal thoughts. Daughter striving for connection, mother feeling lost(?). We never get too terribly much insight to the mother, it's definitely more daughter perspective. That being said, I did enjoy it. I liked the writer's simplistic way of distilling ideas. I tend the ramble and read much longer books and it's really nice to read this style. That's not a dig at all, it's a dig at the writers who can't stfu. This author evokes the swedish or the Japanese minimalist style of only using what's exactly required and dispatching everything else. I really enjoyed the imagery of the Crater lake, and the streets of Tokyo at night, a quiet bookstore open at dark and two women browsing art books.