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I followed Mitsuko; a school teacher who became the center of gossips among the folks at the town regarding her ways of teaching after she shared a fable to her students about a princess who married a dog. Later, the fable that Mitsuko told seemed to reflect into her life when a strange man suddenly appeared acting in an animal-like manner and started to live at her house.\n\nDespite my love-hate for its mundane, minimalist tone and sparse-styled prose, the premise was actually an easy to grasp and delve into. The interactions in between Mitsuko and Taro can be intimately uncomfortable at times, bit drama-ish with all the talks around the town and backstory about Taro’s identity that soon surfaced. Whether a love-triangle or something it was bizarre even for how Mitsuko’s relationship with Fukiko go from a teacher-student to that incident revolving Fukiko’s father and the unexpected, perplexed ending of the chaos.\n\nA tale that challenge norms and appreciate ambiguity in its social and gender commentary arc; sharp, subtle and unemotionally intrigued. Still find it fairly gripping in my second time reading it— a freaky, dreamy in a way and totally odd overall. \n\n**thank you Pansing Distribution for the gifted physical copy!","none","rv-01kr81bygjv82e1rrczy96438m",[],"2026-05-10T04:12:16.000000Z"]