How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

 By: Mizuki Tsujimura

Location: FIC TSU- On the Japanese Fiction shelf on Issue desk

Genre: Realistic Fiction

"It's a gift to be able to live in the world at the same time as the person you have in your heart."

Ayumi is searching for the best way to balance the responsibility of his special powers for connecting the living and the afterlife with his own desires as a young man in the real world. According to strict rules, meetings must take place under a full moon:

- A young film star finds resolution with the father who abandoned him, but not as he expected;
- An amateur historian fan is obsessed to meet a minor warlord of the sixteenth century;
- Ayumi manages two meetings on the same evening, both have lost their daughters;
- A former cook, whose request to visit an upper-class young woman in the afterlife has been repeatedly rejected, is finally granted his wish, and to share a life-changing view of cherry blossom.

Find out how Ayumi and his clients learn to lose their regrets, open up to the unexpected, and cherish what they already have.

A beautifully gentle and moving story about a go-between who has the power to put yearning individuals in touch with a person that they long to see who has passed.

Each of the encounters that Ayumi sets up (and he doesn't always know beforehand whether he will be successful in doing so) leaves the reader feeling moved and reflecting on our own relationships and how we might feel about them once those people are gone from our lives. Farah