A Separation, by Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura’s novel A Separation certainly has merit.  The first person narrator is strong, sensitive, and observant.  We get the sense of a woman rooted to her world, and understanding both her pains and joys.   The author is adept at creating the fully formed voice of a person, a woman, both at odds and at home with her world.  This makes for pleasurable reading.

If some of her plot points fall a bit short, Kitamura more than makes up for it in her novel use of language, and fully fleshed characters.