The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley, August 1, 2021, Atlantic Books
Genre: stories set in Tokyo. Source: library book
Book beginning:
Tattoo
Kentaro held the cup of hot coffee to his lips and blew at the rising steam. The back office of his tattoo parlor was dimly lit, and the light from his laptop screen gave his dirty white stubble a blueish hue. Reflected in his glasses, a long list of links on an open webpage scrolled up slowly. His hand gripped a Blutooth mouse, the buttons covered with greasy finger marks...
Page 56:
Street Fighter II (Turbo)
The screen froze, went white, then displayed two words.
GAME OVER
"What the hell!" I beat the side of the machine with my fist. "Come on."
Comments from readers...interlocking stories of cats, Tokyo, loneliness and redemption. (David Mitchell, via Twitter)
The Cat and The City is a love letter to Japan and its literature.... He is also very clearly a man with a great tenderness for cats. (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan)
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