"A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession."
--Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl
on the Train "[It] will keep you firmly in its grip." --Oyinkan
Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer
"The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith." --Kelly
Link, bestselling author of Get in Trouble A bestselling,
prizewinning novel by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers,
for fans of Convenience Store Woman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely
Fine, and the movies Parasite and Rear Window I think what I'm
trying to say is that I've been wanting to become friends with the
Woman in the Purple Skirt for a very long time... Almost every
afternoon, the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on the same park
bench, where she eats a cream bun while the local children make a
game of trying to get her attention. Unbeknownst to her, she is
being watched--by the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who is always
perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes, what
she eats, whom she speaks to. From a distance, the Woman in the
Purple Skirt looks like a schoolgirl, but there are age spots on
her face, and her hair is dry and stiff. She is single, she lives
in a small apartment, and she is short on money--just like the
Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who lures her to a job as a
housekeeper at a hotel, where she too is a housekeeper. Soon, the
Woman in the Purple Skirt is having an affair with the boss and all
eyes are on her. But no one knows or cares about the Woman in the
Yellow Cardigan. That's the difference between her and the Woman in
the Purple Skirt. Studiously deadpan and chillingly voyeuristic,
and with the off-kilter appeal of the novels of Ottessa Moshfegh,
The Woman in the Purple Skirt explores envy, loneliness, power
dynamics, and the vulnerability of unmarried women in a taut,
suspenseful narrative about the sometimes desperate desire to be
seen.
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