Mild Vertigo - Polly Barton

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a�modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons:�she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket,�visits friends and gossips with neighbours. Tracing her�conversations and interactions with her family and friends�as they blend seamlessly into her own infernally buzzing�internal monologue,�Mild Vertigo�explores the dizzying�reality of being unable to locate oneself in the endless�stream of minutiae that forms a lonely life confined to a�middle-class home, where both everything and nothing�happens. With shades of Clarice Lispector, Elena Ferrante�and Lucy Ellmann, this verbally acrobatic novel by the�esteemed novelist, essayist and critic Mieko Kanai - whose�work enjoys a cult status in Japan - is a disconcerting and�radically imaginative portrait of selfhood in late-stage�capitalist society.