Zara Chaudhury’s Reviews > The Gate > Status Update

The book dives into the mundane life of a couple navigating through marriage, lack of contraception, financial struggles. Sosuke, the husband, works a normal 9-5, embracing the weekends heavily, as his eager younger brother pesters him with money difficulties as he goes to university. Sosuke’s wife, Onnye, feels inadequate due to her inability to get pregnant, yet attempts to be as loving, even whilst ill