Annie the Book reviewed The Easy Life in Kamusari by Brian Nishii
The Easy Life in Kamusari, by Shion Miura
3 stars
What do you do with an adult son who has no ambitions and no motivation? Well, if you’re Yuki Hirano’s parents, you volunteer your son for forestry work in a remote corner of Honshu. The Easy Life in Kamusari, by Shion Miura, contains Yuki’s story of his first year in Kamusari, learning to tend its forests, and finally figuring out how to pull his own weight instead of drifting through life. This might sound like an ordinary bildungsroman and it would be, except that Kamusari is so remote that it might be one of the few places in Japan where the gods still roam...
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