hello, limerence
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hello, limerence <3
For anyone who has ever had a crush, welcome to your new personal obsession.
Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has to show for it is a soul-sucking office job and a terminal case of virginity. Between the pervy salarymen she works with and the pretty boys she pines after, Mika is ready to explode.
But it’s summer in Tokyo, AKA peacock season. Time to strut her stuff. So when her certified Hot Girl bestie sends her the invite for an upcoming beach party, Mika clicks ‘attending’. Just when she thinks real life is never going to live up to the wild fantasies her imagination cooks up, someone new catches her eye.
It could be limerence, or the beginning of something much less one-sided . . .
reviews
“The perfect book for anyone who has ever built an entire fantasy life around a man who barely knows your last name and who makes you ask, 'Is this love, or am I just deeply unwell?' It's funny, cringey, painfully real yet still tender about the humiliations we endure to feel chosen. You'll laugh, you'll wince, and you'll recognize yourself, which is honestly kind of rude of a book to do”
— SAMANTHA IRBY“Brilliant, hilarious, addictive. My new literary obsession”
— ALICE SLATER
“A powerful observation of beauty, power and the existential feelings of turning 25 and not knowing who you are, this is sure to be the hot-girl read of the year”
— Hypebae“Fresh and vital . . . Lots of fun”
— MARIE CLAIRE“It’s filthy, funny and painfully self-aware, with flashes of Fleabag energy filtered through Tokyo summers and late-capitalist exhaustion…Yamaguchi writes desire at its most irrational and humiliating”
— 10 Magazine“Every so often, you read a debut that seizes you by the throat with the freshness of its voice”
— Bookseller
about
Photo credit: Manami Takahashi
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Literary: Kent Wolf, Neon Literary
Publicity (US): Maureen Cole, Mariner
Publicity (UK): Josh Smith, Faber
Film & Television: Mirabel Michelson, UTA