Woman Running in the Mountains -- Yuko Tsushima, Paperback Colin Green Track: 3 - Undertow

Track: 3 - Undertow

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Woman Running in the Mountains -- Yuko Tsushima, Paperback Colin Green Track: 3 - UndertowSet in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a