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This was a beautiful short story that followed Sensei and Tsukiko on a summer day. Tsukiko recalls a story from her childhood that was a bit melancholy yet wholesome.

The afterword from the author made me shed a few tears. It‘s a wonderful little book.

Cute little book I just got in the mail. It‘s a short continuation of Strange Weather in Tokyo.

I loved visiting the characters from Strange Weather in Tokyo again. I had no idea the book would be so small! It's only about 4 inches tall and 72 pages long. The story was interesting, but the best part was the author's afterword, in which she talks about thinking back on finished stories and all the things even she didn't know about her characters.

Parade is a companion to the novel Strange Weather in Tokyo and although I don‘t think reading the novel is an absolute necessity, I do think that I may have better understood the bond between Tsukiko and her teacher if I‘d read that book. Parade involves Tsukiko communicating a tale of her childhood, when two creatures called Tengu from Japanese folklore attached themselves to her.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3055496449

I won this Japanese folktale book from Soft Skull Press a couple months ago and, sadly, it‘s so little that my bigger books buried it! Having now rescued it from the smothering, I‘m going to need to make it a priority. It‘s 79 pages with limited text so I am sure I can finish it in one sitting. I‘m going to put it on the top of my pile so I can get to it before anything else in March. What book(s) will you be making a priority next month?