![]() ![]() Treat this post as a “Cease and desist” letter to get the best reading experience. ![]() If you’re a wimp who cannot wait, you’ll obviously sneak up to read this review in The Guardian to learn what the book is all about. I’m unable to dwell on everything that happens in Sweet Bean Paste without giving away the reason it makes for such an earth-shattering story. It holds a simple tale that will rankle in the heart for a long time because it takes us into a world most of us will never ever know. Sweet Bean Paste is about the bubble-wrapped universe that we, the able-bodied, occupy. ![]() Was a pantheon of my Hindu gods in heaven making up a list of books I must read so that I may grow a little more every day? If so, this book had to have been on that list. ![]() When a book lands in my lap in the most unforeseen way-because of a random conversation I had with a neighbor-I wonder if it’s the design of collaborative forces unknown to me. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa-translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts-was a recommendation by my neighbor and I cannot thank her enough. I didn’t get up until I’d turned the last page and also read the author’s note. A few minutes later, however, I was back at it. I shut the book at page 143 and I decided I would not pick it up again until later in the day. Of course I had to ask my friend Vanitha Venkatraman for a picture of Japan in spring. When Sweet Bean Paste opens, the cherry blossoms are ablaze in the trees. ![]()
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