Title: Hikikomori and the rental sister : a novel /
Authors: Backhaus, Jeff.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social isolation Fiction; Hikikomori Fiction.; Intimacy (Psychology) Fiction.; Grief Fiction
Abstract: Estranged from the husband who cloistered himself in his bedroom three years earlier after a devastating tragedy, Silke hires a young Japanese woman to draw him back into the world by establishing a deeply intimate relationship with him.