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In the village once you turn 70 you are left on the mountainside. But Kayu wakes up in Dendera, a community built over decades by women. Some want a peaceful existence and some want revenge on the village but all are threatened by a bear woken early from hibernation and hungry. Unexpectedly gory😯

There is actually a Japanese mythical practice of obasute where an elderly relative is carried to a mountain or remote place and left to die.

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Think this succulent was called a dragon claw, can't remember its real name.

My current read about a group of women aged 70+, who were expected to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the village once they turn 70 but instead have created their own community and are under attack by a hungry bear. 😯

Couple of pics from the event where Sayaka Murata discussed Convenience Store Woman and Yuya Sato discussed the tagged book. I've read CSW, which was great, but not the tagged one. It sounds really interesting - it's about a group of old women left at the top of a mountain to die, so they won't be a burden on their village.