All The Lovers In The Night

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)