People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories Omae Ao
People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories Omae Ao A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the world of Japanese literature.Composed of…
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People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories Omae Ao
A fresh, thoughtful, and always surprising short story collection from a rising young star in the world of Japanese literature.Composed of the title novella and three short stories, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice sensitively explores gender, friendship, romance, love, human interaction and its absence, and how a misogynistic society limits women and men.In the title story, Nanamori and Mugito, two university students appalled by society's gendered roles, rebel. Unlike Nanamori and Mugito, their fellow plushie society member Shiraki does not talk to plushies. Refusing to interact with other people they use stuffed toys for emotional support.
Pragmatic, she accepts the status quo that boys sometimes make nasty jokes; she believes their behavior resembles the real world.In "Realizing Fun Things Through Water," a young