Hikikomori and the rental sister
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jeff Backhaus
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781616201371
Subjects: Grief; Social isolation; Intimacy; Hikikomori; Fiction
Description: 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.