In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke’s new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. K

"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote

After her breakup with Itsuki, Tsumugi leaves Tokyo for her old home in Matsumoto...and after one stormy night, she finds herself in a relationship with Koreda!

In Olive's perfect world, she and Emily do everything together and are friends forever but in the real world, Eva is becoming Emily's friend, too, and Olive fee

Itsuki and Tsugumi spend the night after the earthquake together in a van outside the shelter. Koreda and Nagasawa arrive from Tokyo the next day, and Nagasawa