Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – 3/5 stars Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is a book about heartbreak, healing, and second-hand shelves that made me want to quit everything and open a bookshop. I picked up this book not knowing what to expect, and I finished it in a single sitting, feeling slightly wistful, a little reflective, and, I’ll be honest, quietly Googling how much it costs to open a bookshop. That’s the best summary I can give. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is a short Japanese novel by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated into English by Eric Ozawa. It follows Takako, a 25-year-old woman whose life falls apart when she discovers her boyfriend plans to marry someone else. Heartbroken and unmoored, she accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer to stay above his second-hand bookshop in Jimbocho, Tokyo’s famous book town for a while. What follows is a slow, gentle story about what it means to start over. It reads like a slow Sunday morning. If you go into this book expecting dramatic plot twists or a …