Seven pieces of autobiographical book fiction trace encounters with books and open into unexpected associations with film, poetry, and song. They turn the moments when books and language connect memory and culture into an agile literary exploration.

Seven stories follow the hidden currents of memory through books.

A Japanese man named Asato undergoes a left-hand transplant in a Hungarian hospital and wakes to find the hand of an unknown white man attached to him. Beginning with this bodily transformation in a foreign country, the novella asks what body, homeland, and dispossession can mean.

A novella that questions the boundaries of body and nation through severance, loss, and grafting.