Gifted: A Novel by Suzumi Suzuki

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gifted: A Novel Author: Suzumi Suzuki Narrator: Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A subtle and intimate accounting of a daughter's final days with her mother, set amid the rush of Tokyo's red-light district. Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction. In the last days of her mother's life, a young woman living in Tokyo's red-light district is thrust into a split existence. By day, she negotiates her new role as caregiver of an abusive parent. By night, she drifts home from the hospital, goes out with other sex-workers, thinks about quitting smoking, and numbly remembers Eri, a friend who died the summer before. Her sensitivity to the details of her surroundings grounds an otherwise unstable world, one where each interaction requires a subtle negotiation of economic and sexual power, and proximity rarely means intimacy or connection. Contains mature themes.