Summer Solstice Festival is a story collection centered on Yasuo, who leaves a former mining town for the city carrying the guilt of having made a young girl unhappy. It observes the resilience of people seeking to put down roots in their hometown while living with old wounds and loneliness.

Through Yasuo's burden of guilt, the collection reveals an effort to begin again between hometown ties and loneliness.

An I-Novel from Left to Right is a novel by Minae Mizumura. Written horizontally in a blend of Japanese and English, it autobiographically portrays sisters living in the United States, migration, family, and their ties to Japanese literature. It received the 1995 Noma Literary New Face Prize.

In a style that crosses Japanese and English, the novel traces the memories and family life of sisters living abroad.