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Kanehara is an author who I suspect fundamentally changed me as a person. Really enjoyed this careful, well-considered look into her work, especially Meets the World, which I think has intrigued me the most out of her more recent novels. I wish I had known she contributed an afterword to Idol, Burning! That's one I'll have to go back and read in Japanese eventually.

So far the only untranslated Kanehara I've read has been Ash Baby. Absolutely no surprise that publishers skipped right past it for English translation (and if it was unfit to print twenty years ago, I can only imagine what the backlash would look like now), but I still wish there was one, so deserving is its place in the global unhinged woman canon. I wish I could do it.

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