Gifted -- Suzumi Suzuki, Paperback Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction --New York Times

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video game-like dungeon filled with traps

strikes a drunk

her fiery mother's bitter yearning for the country she left behind

and nature - Father's Day

Gifted -- Suzumi Suzuki, Paperback Unabridged Audio - Misc.Nonfiction --New York TimesA subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter's final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo's red light district. Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction. In the last days of her