This collection is led by the prizewinning story about a caregiver facing aging, sexuality, marital distance, and women’s bodily lives. Across generations, it portrays women’s unruly feelings with humor and pain.

The stories trace the heat that remains deep inside women’s bodies.

Winner of the readers’ prize in the eighteenth R-18 Literary Award. Shinchosha’s award page confirms the work, but no standalone book or collected volume containing it was confirmed.

A quiet prizewinning work by a writer who kept submitting and writing.

The opening story of a linked collection about sex work, prejudice, family, and loneliness. A boy who cannot accept his mother’s work gradually changes how he sees other people’s lives.

By touching what could not yet be said, the story moves through a lonely night.