Books / Reviews Aug 12, 2017
'Inheritance From Mother': Tackling the taboo of caring for elderly parents
by Nicolas Gattig
"Mother, when are you ever going to die?" Inheritance From Mother, by Minae Mizumura.447 pages OTHER PRESS, Fiction. The question is shocking indeed. But Mitsuki Hirayama, a teacher and translator of French and the heroine of Minae Mizumura's new novel, "Inheritance from Mother," dreams of the day ...