The Passport Book Club: Kokoro + Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives
This month, we’re heading to Japan and reading two novels written nearly 90 years apart. Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro and Nao-Cola Yamazaki’s Don’t Laugh at Other People’s Sex Lives both center center around a connection between a student and an older teacher figure, but the nature of those relationships—and what they reveal about intimacy, authority, and social convention—could hardly be more different. Reading them side by side gives us a fascinating view of Japan nearly a century apart.






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