A Kaien New Writer Prize-winning work by Yuri Shinofuji. Under a title that evokes Gandhi, the piece carries the ambition of a literary debut prize, crossing a gaze toward distant places with private interiority.

A gaze toward a distant sky quietly illuminates a private inner world.

A debut work centered on Yomogi, a young Japanese wife living in the United States, portraying clashes over culture, race, gender, housework, and work in a pop style. Beneath the light voice are discomfort and release in cross-cultural life.

In her American married life, Yomogi embraces both the freedom of doing nothing and the eyes fixed on her.