To get back at Stephanie for assigning her a sad book, Hannah assigns Stephanie Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station. Will Stephanie find its bleak story as upsetting as Hannah found The Four Winds? 

Kazu has lived his whole life in poverty, resulting in his last place of residence being a makeshift tent outside Ueno Station in Tokyo. As a ghost, he continues to reside in this busy park and must now contemplate the life–or lack thereof–he left behind. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss the issues of poverty and isolation that this book attempts to highlight, while also trying to discern which types of “sadness” they can each handle in a book. 

Resources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/books/yu-miri-tokyo-ueno-station.html 

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2020/06/25/tokyo-ueno-station/ 

https://electricliterature.com/a-ghost-haunts-the-tokyo-olympics/ 

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