What's Left of Me is Yours

We erase events from our lives, experiences that do not fit in with the storeys we tell ourselves. Still, there are some memories that hover on the periphery. They reach out to you from another time and transform a moment of joy into one of shame. From then on these recollections stay with you. They linger on the edge of your vision and say, “Look at what you are.”

Inspired by a true crime, a mystery/romance about a woman digging into her mother's past with the wakaresaseya (a professional agent specializing in breaking up relationships) hired by her father to seduce her mother to gain leverage in divorce proceedings. I liked the mystery, the romance development not so much. But I liked the way this explored that thin line between passionate love and obsessive love. As the author said in the acknowledgments, it's about “how we love, and what we are capable of doing to each other for love.”