Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto

Author:Banana Yoshimoto
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Grove Atlantic

Swimming with My Father

The sight of Tsugumi wandering along the beach with Kyōichi—this new amour of hers—created something of a stir in town. They stood out so much it was weird, it really was. You wouldn’t think we’d see anything odd in this combination of “Tsugumi + Male,” since we had been accustomed to seeing it for a very long time already, but somehow Tsugumi and Kyōichi always had this aura about them as they walked around our small town—like sweethearts rambling aimlessly through some distant land, they seemed to give off a halo of delicate, uncertain light. They were always on the beach, and they always had the dogs with them. The faraway sparkle in their eyes seemed like it must make everyone who glimpsed it think back on something precious, call up the pleasant ache of a reviving memory, like a dream dreamt long ago.

Back at home she still tormented her family, kicked Pooch’s food around, refused to apologize, and turned up stretched out here or there or somewhere else with her stomach showing, snoring her nose off. When she was with Kyōichi, on the other hand, she shone with a look of such utter happiness that you got the feeling she must have sped up the pace of her life somehow, that she was fighting to cram more life into each passing moment. Looking at her you felt a touch of unease—a feeling that seemed to flicker painfully through the depths of your chest, the way light glimmers through a hole in a cloud.

Tsugumi’s style of living always called up this fear.

Her emotions seemed to yank her body this way and that; they appeared to be whittling away at her life so quickly it was dizzying; they were dazzling.

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