Book description
The book shouldn?t exist ? yet here it is
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River Black found cult success writing slasher flicks but has grown increasingly disillusioned and unhappy. When a mysterious book appears in her mailbox, her life is turned upside down. River returns to Nagano, Japan, where the book originated, hoping to…
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1 author picked River, Diverted as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The arrival on her doorstep of an impossible book sends horror screenwriter River Black in search of answers to the Japan she’d fled two decades earlier.
The story of that trip—and of the life she’d lived there before—is compelling, with convincing, beautifully drawn characters and precise, spellbindingly intricate settings. This is a very engaging and wonderfully crafted tale.
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