Chyna’s Reviews > Moshi Moshi > Status Update

banana yoshimoto writes in this style that invites the reader into the scene, as if they’re being told the story by an attentive narrator over coffee or tea. i love that i get to be in tokyo, eating typic japanese food and drink, in an japanese-style apartment. i’m enmeshed in the scene not as a foreigner with an outsider’s gaze but as someone whose reality is nothing beyond the story’s setting and events.