Dragon Palace

<p><b>Included in <i>The New Yorker's</i> Best Books of 2023</b></p><p><b>Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction where reality
 myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender biology 
and destiny.</b></p><p>From the bestselling author of <i>Strange Weather in Tokyo </i>comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories each a masterpiece of transformation infused with humor sex and the universal search for love and beauty-in a world where the laws of time and space and even species boundaries don't apply. Meet a shape-shifting con man a goddess who uses sex to control her followers an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit a woman who falls in love with her 400-year-old ancestor a kitchen god with three faces in a weasel-infested apartment block moles who provide underground sanctuary for humans who have lost the will to live a man nurtured through life by his seven extraordinary sisters and a woman who is handed from husband to husband until she is finally able to return to the sea.</p>