Jayne Josos new book is a collection of stories and short fiction set in Japan. Each is centred on a particular character a sinister museum curator a son caring for his dementiastruck father a widow in the far north reflecting on her provincial life a bookseller and tells a compelling story about them. Together these short narratives become a mosaic of a life in contemporary Japan its people its society its thinking its character. With the focus of the world on the Tokyo Olympics Japan Stor