![]() Interspersed with Aomame’s narrative are chapters written from the perspective of Tengo Kawana, a classmate who knew Aomame in elementary school. When she emerges at street level, Aomame notices subtle changes that weren’t there just hours earlier and later sees that there are two moons in the sky. Before she does so, the cab driver warns her, “fter you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little” (9). ![]() Rather than miss her appointment, Aomame leaves the cab and descends an emergency stairway. She is running late for an appointment at a hotel, where she plans to assassinate a wealthy oil executive as retribution for abusing his wife. In 1984 Tokyo, 30-year-old Masami Aomame sits in a cab that is stuck in traffic on the expressway. This study guide refers to the 2011 edition published by Alfred A. ![]()
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Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group-the fabled “Lost Generation”-that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. ![]() Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness-until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her life changes forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the looks of it, his former… best friend / boyfriend / whatever isn’t doing so well. Rikker didn’t exactly expect a warm welcome from Graham. As the satellite trucks line the sidewalk outside the rink, his new teammates are not amused.Īnd one player in particular looks sick every time he enters the room. And it’s worse than usual, because the media has latched onto the story of the only “out” player in Division One hockey. With one loose word, the team’s new left wing could destroy Graham’s life as he knows it. For Graham, there is only one possible reaction: total, debilitating panic. So it’s a shock when his past strolls right into the Harkness College locker room, sporting a bag of hockey gear and the same slow smile that had always rendered Graham defenseless. Since then, he’s made an art of hiding his sexuality from everyone. Until now.įive years ago, Michael Graham betrayed the only person who ever really knew him. What happened in high school stayed in high school. 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