Cold Enough for Snow

A young woman has talked her mother into an autumn holiday in Japan; they live in separate cities and have not travelled together since she was a child. By train they go to museums and churches, share meals in modest restaurants and stroll by the water after dark, watching for typhoon rain and perhaps snow. They keep up a conversation, or something like one, about small things such as weather, star signs and clothes, and about the mother's relatives in Hong Kong and moments from the daughter's past. Yet much remains unclear: what is spoken aloud and what only thought, whose voice we hear, and what the trip is really for. The book measures the tenderness between the two women against the gap that separates them.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2022

ISBN

9780811231558 (New Directions, United States)

9781913097769 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

9781925818925 (Giramondo Publishing, Australia)

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