Swallows: A Novel Binding:Hardcover and her police sergeant ex-husband

and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture

its haunting tale still resonates today

Beginning with the current moment when everything

joyous and bitingly sharp

aunts and nieces—one family’s journey through their history

Swallows: A Novel Binding:Hardcover and her police sergeant ex-husbandThe highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides shes ready to sell anythingeven her wombto escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple? Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in Hokkaido, where she worked at a nursing home, for a