500 Great Books By Women discussion

The Floating World, Cynthia Kadohata, 1989, United States, NOVEL

"...One of the beauties of this novel is its ability to re-create a rhythm particular to both travel and adolescence, a stop-and-flow combination of heightened sensitivity and languid introspection mirrored in Olivia's observations, which are blunt, poetic, or philosophical, sometimes changing from one sentence to the next. The incidents and people are offbeat and colorful, events are both real and surreal..."

(E.B., p. 127)