Swallows: A Novel Binding:Hardcover re-creating the dishes from her

re-creating the dishes from her childhood becomes an act of resistance

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years

Debutante cotillions

joyous and bitingly sharp

its haunting tale still resonates today

Swallows: A Novel Binding:Hardcover re-creating the dishes from herThe highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides shes ready to sell anythingeven her wombto escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple? Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in Hokkaido, where she worked at a nursing home, for a