hexarchate@bookwyrm.social reviewed Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino
Review of 'Out' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
I could have liked it, but that ending was so baffling and terrible that the rest of the book can't make up for it.
Paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2005 by Vintage.
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.
I could have liked it, but that ending was so baffling and terrible that the rest of the book can't make up for it.