Mornings Without Mii

Subjects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
By Mayumi Inaba
“I have never read a book quite like this . . . Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.” ―Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or
A beloved Japanese modern classic: a meditation on solitude, independence, writing, and life alongside a cat.
On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only 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: so begins an ineffable bond.
Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse.
From the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: it’s a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.
Product Details
- Paperback
- 192 pages
- ISBN
- 9780374614782
- Publisher
- FSG Originals (2/25/25)
- Dimensions
- 5 x 0.4 x 7.4 inches
- Subjects
Subjects
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs