04026cam a2200757 4500 2617026813 TxAuBib 20251108120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593804094 0593804090 B0DPY44S6M Amazon aee41592-5c14-4100-8cbd-d70bc66db609 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11426100 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kirino, Natsuo. Swallows [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. contemporary fiction. japanese literature. reproductive rights. female protagonist. realistic fiction. gifts for readers. mothers day gifts. literary fiction. motherhood books. Japanese novels. books for women. gifts for women. fertility books. Literary gifts. japanese novel. fiction books. gifts for mom. gifts for her. books fiction. provocative. women gifts. motherhood. capitalist. Capitalism. literature. body books. surrogate. mom books. sex work. Fiction. Medical. family. novels. bodies. social. Japan. women. Tokyo. HTML:<b>The highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she’s ready to sell anything—even her womb—to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple?</b><br /> Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in Hokkaido, where she worked at a nursing home, for a better life in Tokyo. But as a temp in the big city she has no job security, and barely scrapes by. She eats the same old discount boiled egg for lunch every day, sometimes for dinner, too. Many of her peers have to take on a side hustle just to make ends meet. So when her friend discovers an agency offering a hefty sum for egg donation, both leap at the chance for an interview.<br /> Meanwhile, former ballet star Motoi Kusaoke and his wife, Yuko, have been trying to conceive for years. After trying what feels like every available option, it seems futile—until Motoi dives deep into his research and learns that, while surrogacy is technically illegal in Japan, there is a company that’s found a loophole.<br /> Before long, everyone has an opinion on the matter: from Yuko’s sex-obsessed, asexual best friend, to Motoi’s controlling prima ballerina mother, and even the affable sex-worker-slash-therapist that Riki has been to a couple of times, after she accepted a down payment to be a surrogate.<br /> Acutely funny and addictively page-turning, <i>Swallows</i> pulls at the seams of society, reassessing our understanding of motherhood, self-worth, bodily autonomy, and class. What does it mean to be “in control”? And can money really buy happiness? Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-11-06 20:00:03. Hofmann-Kuroda, Lisa. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aee41592-5c14-4100-8cbd-d70bc66db609&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aee41592-5c14-4100-8cbd-d70bc66db609&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)