After Dark laika The Skin We’re In will

The Skin We’re In will spark a national conversation

From rice and morning meals

Caught in circular arguments about what makes real art and concerned about the vapid interests of their younger contemporaries

raising children

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After Dark laika The Skin We’re In willA short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakamis masterworks The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters: Yuri, a fashion model sleeping her way into oblivion; and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Dennys into lives radically alien to her own: those of a jazz trombonist who claims theyve