Body

A housewife who discovers the pleasures of plastic surgery. A timid salaryman obsessed with women's soft knees. A guy in his twenties contending with thinning hair. A girl shipped off to an elite high school in Tokyo. A boy who constantly finds himself the target of older men's fists. The characters featured in Asa Nonami's short stories have one thing in common-a fixation with an aspect of the body that leads them down the rabbit hole of warped self-perception. These modern fables show what happens when people let superficial preoccupations take over their lives.