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People who talk to stuffed animals are nice : stories / Ao Omae ; translated by Emily Balistrieri.
Van Pelt Library PL874.M34 N8513 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ōmae, Ao, 1992- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Nuigurumi to shaberu hito wa yasashii. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Fiction.
- Sexual minorities.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Translations.
- LGBTQ+ fiction
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperVia edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
- Summary:
- "Composed of the title novella and three short stories, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice sensitively explores gender, friendship, romance, love, human interaction and its absence, and how a misogynistic society limits women and men. In the title story, Nanamori and Mugito, two university students appalled by society's gendered roles, rebel. Refusing to interact with other people they use stuffed toys for emotional support. In "Realizing Fun Things Through Water," a young woman named Hatsuoka must contend with a mother-in-law who swears by cancer-preventing "hyper-organization" water, and a sister who writes fake news for a living. "Bath Towel Visuals" illuminates the mental cost of not just laughing along at mean humor, while "Hello, Thank You I'm Okay" follows a family's response when their shut-in son announces he wants to throw himself a birthday party. These stories, sometimes comical, sometimes bittersweet, and always thought-provoking, speak to the pain and desires of all who embrace nuance, repudiate traditional sex roles, and long for a gentler and more tolerant world."
- Contents:
- Realizing fun things through water
- People who talk to stuffed animals are nice
- Bath towel visuals
- Hello, thank you, everything's fine
- A note from the translator.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 2020 in Japan as Nuigurumi to shaberu hito wa yasashii.
- ISBN:
- 9780063227217
- 0063227215
- OCLC:
- 1317309269
- Publisher Number:
- 99994815387
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