Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

Asa hungers to feed others, but her food is rejected at every turn - until she is planted, processed, and turned into chopsticks.

An unnamed woman wants nothing more than to lie down - eventually becoming so sluggish that she lives for a time as a cat. People call her Happy.

Through their lives and others, these dark and playful stories about women's bodily experiences capture our deepest desires: for agency, for assertive power, and for the slippery gift of inclusion. Published in English for the first time, this is a startling collection from international prize-winning author Natsuko Imamura.