Description:
The Japanese Box is a love letter to anxiety, trauma, grief, and longing. It is a story of a child becoming
an adult, and all the ghosts and misfortunes that happen in order to survive.
Review Quotes:
The Japanese Box and Other Stories
The precision of observation here speaks not only to the honesty of the writer, but to the respect granted
in all phases of life; Jennifer Anne Gordon is on full display. Smart, full of character, vibrant. You will
feel, you will feel big, and you will return, too, to the richest moments of your own history, landmarks
that bring you to both smile and weep.
-Josh Malerman
New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Daphne
I compulsively read anything Jennifer Anne Gordon writes. Like the best contemporary filmmakers
stitching together grief and horror, her storytelling is a sharp needle that both pierces and tugs us close.
Compulsive and genre-slashing, with exquisite, rhythmic prose, THE JAPANESE BOX is an
extraordinary exploration of alone-ness that beats and breathes: grief is horror, grief is love. We as readers
are drawn ever closer to this beautifully haunted narrator until we're face-down in the box with her. Does
she feel us? She thinks she is alone. We all think we are alone. By the end we've become the ghosts in her
black room, reaching out to gently touch her hair and whisper we're here.
-Diane Zinna, author of The All-Night Sun