{"product_id":"mornings-without-mii-mayumi-inaba-9780374614782","title":"Mornings Without MII","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to find a newborn kitten, just the size of her palm, dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii, and so begins an ineffable bond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, through a lifetime of choices and compromises made in pursuit of quiet, solitude, and a space to create. Through it all, her cat, a formidably independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the late Mayumi Inaba, the winner of the Kawabata Yasunari Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, \u003ci\u003eMornings Without Mii \u003c\/i\u003eis more than a love letter to feline companionship--it is a probing, stirring meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mayumi Inaba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374614784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374614782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Mayumi Inaba","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094317814015,"sku":"9780374614782","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4950d630-1dad-4625-ba75-46194d20a795.jpg?v=1724844305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mornings-without-mii-mayumi-inaba-9780374614782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}