A Psychography of Modest Intimacies
by Soramimi Hanarejima

Description

In this wonderfully strange and haunting collection people exchange shadows, trade memories, and go to alternate universes to keep watching their favorite shows. These “modest intimacies” reveal a deeply human preoccupation with connection and memory. Hanarejima’s writing pulls you in and won’t let you go, many of the stories are only a few pages but feel as if they contain the entirety of a person’s humanity. This is a beautiful book. (Chloe N. Clark, author of Collective Gravities and Patterns of Orbit)

Sample: After work, we meet in the park near your office and use the late-afternoon sunlight to swap shadows. The instant yours transfers over to me, I recoil at the emotional buildup she’s accrued. I expected it to be bad after all these months, but this is ridiculous. (from “Shadow Work”)