People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

I adored this pocket-sized collection of intermingling super short stories, all set in a small Japanese neighbourhood.

Charming, odd, and full of astute observations and an overabundance of the unexpected, this is modern Japanese fiction at its sharpest, a perfect bedside read to pick up and put down at will or devoured in a single unsettling sitting.

- Erin