We, the Children of Cats (Found in Translation)
“These wonderful stories make you laugh and cry, but mostly they astonish.”  —Helen Mitsios, editor,New Japanese Voices“I see [in Hoshino] an ability to truly think through fiction that recalls Kobo Abe. This superlative ability makes even the most fantastical details and developments read as perfectly natural.”  —Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize–winning author,Nip the Buds,Shoot the KidsandTeach Us to Outgrow Our Madness“Wonderfully translated, selected, and presented, this collection of works will be required reading.”  —Rebecca Copeland, author,Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan“The loosely linked stories collected inWe, the Children of Catshome in on everyday events of millennial Japan only to slowly pan out onto alternate realities—voyages, crimes of passion, cultural histories of treason, sudden quarrels, and equally sudden truces. These stories explore the longing to be somewhere, sometime, or even someone else so strongly that reality itself is, before you know it, transfigured.”  —Anne McKnight, author,Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity"Every story and novella in this collection startles, confuses, yet finally energizes the attentive reader. The editor and translators are to be congratulated on presenting us with such an impressive sample of this brilliant contemporary writer." —Japan Times(January 2013)"Nearly every character in Hoshino's collection of short stories and novellas yearns to escape the boundaries of their gender, national identity, or, in many cases, their own flesh. Hoshino is an avowed lover of magical realism, and the transformative, dream-like aspects of that genre wield a heavy influence on this work." —Publishers Weekly(November 19, 2012)"We, the Children of Catsis an interesting collection, and certainly a good introduction to an interesting writer." —www.complete-review.com"Power surges through each fantasia of failed transformation in this remarkable collection."  —Michael A. Morrison,World Literature Today