Mina's Matchbox Condition:Like New Buried beneath layers of flesh

Buried beneath layers of flesh

It belongs to everyone whose path crossed mine

in a world spinning inexorably out of control

his difficult childhood

swarming chaos of stimuli

Mina's Matchbox Condition:Like New Buried beneath layers of fleshA hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. In the spring of 1972, twelve year old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunts family. Tomokos aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working class family, and her magnificent homeand handsome, foreign husband, the president of