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Asleep

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This book is three novellas about young women who are,

in one way or the other, unconscious. In the first,

the narrator is mourning for her beloved brother, the

second is told by at the end of a painful affair and

the last is about a woman having an affair with a man

whose wife is in a coma. The narrators are all somewhat

detached from reality and emotions so it's not strange

to hear that one meets her lost brother in a strange

encounter or when another uses a medium to make contact

with a romantic rival or when the third starts to become

comatose herself.

It helps to understand that sleep itself has a special meaning Night-time and Sleep in Asia and the West: Exploring the Dark Side of Life (Anthropology in Asia)in Japan, but in the

end these little fictions-which were written by a 25 year-old

are really more suitable in both style and substance for a

younger reader.

Lynn Hoffman, author of the completely adult bang BANG: A Novel