After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Sorry for the delay putting this one up y'all - a lot's going on and in fact we're gonna have to skip our usual third-Monday-in-September meeting and get back together for the first Monday in October instead. See you all on October 2nd!

From harukimurakami.com : The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman.