hexarchate@bookwyrm.social reviewed Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino
Review of 'Out' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
I could have liked it, but that ending was so baffling and terrible that the rest of the book can't make up for it.
Natsuo Kirino: Out (2006, BBC Audiobooks)
MP3 CD
English language
Published March 18, 2006 by BBC Audiobooks.
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.
I could have liked it, but that ending was so baffling and terrible that the rest of the book can't make up for it.