{"product_id":"mornings-without-mii","title":"Mornings Without Mii","description":"INDIE BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA New Yorker Best Book of the Year So Far\u003cbr\u003eA Must-Read: Literary Hub • The Millions • Kirkus Reviews • Shelf Awareness • BookPage • BookBub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A great love story.” ―Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have never read a book quite like this. Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.” ―Elif Batuman, author of Either\/Or\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMornings Without Mii is a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: it’s a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47824990699746,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-22-7.65-651","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_150_8N2JeHeyS.jpg?v=1779550339","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/en-ca\/products\/mornings-without-mii","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}