Bungei Award ぶんげいしょう
Edition 49 (2012)
Medium-length novelFull-length novel
Winners
1 peopleMinami, a forty-nine-year-old freelance writer who has spent years withdrawn after her divorce, is asked by her mother to follow her suspicious father. She meets a group of women who believe in money as a deity. As Minami investigates their strange faith, she begins to set in motion a life that had been stalled by anxiety.
An encounter with people who worship money as a deity moves Minami's stalled days in an unexpected direction.
176 pages
Money and faithPrecarious livingA new start in midlifeFamily and solitude