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The shut ins / Katherine Brabon.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF BRAB	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .
AF BRAB	Adult Fiction		Chester Hill .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781760879747 (paperback)
Name	Brabon, Katherine, 1987- author.
Title	The shut ins / Katherine Brabon.
Published	Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Published	©2021
Description	252 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	Mai and Hikaru went to school together in the city of Nagoya, until Hikaru disappeared when they were eighteen. It is not until ten years later, when Mai runs into Hikaru's mother, Hiromi Sato, that Mai learns he became a hikikomori, a recluse unable to leave his bedroom for years. In secret, Hiromi Sato hires Mai as a 'rental sister', to write letters to Hikaru and encourage him to leave his room. Mai has recently married J, a devoted salaryman with conservative ideas about the kind of wife Mai will be. The renewed contact with her old school friend, Hikaru, stirs Mai's feelings of invisibility within her marriage. She is frustrated with her life and knows she will never fulfil J's obsession with the perfect wife and mother. What else is there for Mai to do but to disappear herself?
Subjects	Hikikomori -- Fiction
	Recluses -- Fiction
	Marriage -- Fiction
	Loneliness -- Fiction
	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
	Japan -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Hikikomori -- Fiction . Interpersonal relations -- Fiction . Japan -- Fiction . Loneliness -- Fiction . Marriage -- Fiction . Recluses -- Fiction . Authors: Brabon, Katherine, 1987- .