Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine editor in Tokyo. What You are Looking for is in the Library was shortlisted for the Japan Booksellers' Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Yokohama, Japan.
A very Japanese soul consoling book with the theme of an “information center” in a mysterious underground room, where there is a pair of twin old men and an ammonite as the manager of the center. I like how the magical elements involved. Heart warming and encouraging read.