Perhaps the reason why everything is so hard to understand is because to Hitomi, people are hard to understand. That said, the book does seem to touch on the theme of interpersonal difficulties. Then again, basically all the relationships in this book are equally random and inscrutable, and if you asked me to explain what happened between the characters, I’d be able to give you the events but not the why. It starts, and then stops, and I have no idea what happened in between. Apart from the fact that characters are not sketched out in this story, the relationship between them doesn’t seem to develop. One big example of how I did not connect with the book would be the relationship with Hitomi and Tateo.
It’s all chronologically connected, and the narrator of all the stories is Hitomi, but I quite frankly did not understand anything nor did I feel very charmed by the book. The Nakano Thrift Shop is a collection of stories about the eponymous shop, but most of them have no point. So… how did I even find the book to borrow it?Īnyway, I suppose all this strangeness fits the book because like I’ve said before, it’s strange. Not only did I not know who recommended it to me (I know I’ve seen it around but it’s not in my TBR list so I have no clue), I’m not even sure how I found the book because I thought all the library books I got this round were from the TBR list.
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