Goodbye Tsugumi

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN'The voice of young Japan.' INDEPENDENT'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES'[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATOR An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university.When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.