Kamusari Tales Told at Night

From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village. Its been a year since Yuki Hirano left homeor more precisely, was booted from itto study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means courage, and Yuki hopes to live up to it. Hes adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legendstales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao. Yukis crush on the only other young single person in the village isnt a secret. Yet how impressed can she be with someone at least five years younger who makes less money and doesnt even own a car? More daunting, shes in love with another man. Finally finding his place among the villagers, a feeling deepened by his crush, Yuki seems headed for a dream life of adventure and camaraderieand Nao could be the missing piece of that dream.