Woman Running in the Mountains Brandy Schillace * A Finalist for the

* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction

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Woman Running in the Mountains Brandy Schillace * A Finalist for theBy: Yuko Tsushima Published by New York Review of Books, 2022 02 22 Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of