Gifted: A Novel Audiobook by Suzumi Suzuki

01/10/2024 2h 33min
Gifted: A Novel Audiobook by Suzumi Suzuki

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ID: 803873

Title: Gifted: A Novel

Author: Suzumi Suzuki

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:33:19

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

A 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 mother's life, a young woman living in Tokyo's red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection.

Contains mature themes.

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