FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A BEST BOOK OF 2022
Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers
Weekly・Lit Hub
Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami
invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world
with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is
one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented
novelists.
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and
living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships,
she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor,
Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition.
When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection
in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless
woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do
something about it.
As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from
Fuyuko's past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond
the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful,
entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make
them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that
sometimes the pain is worth it.
"In the skilled hands of Bett and Boyd, Kawakami's prose is instantly
recognizable--immediate, incisive, and unfailingly honest."--Katie
Kitamura, Entertainment Weekly (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)
