Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, translated by Alison Watts [in Library Journal]
10 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Making and selling dorayaki – a pancake-like pastry filled with the eponymous "sweet bean paste" – was not supposed to define Sentaro's life. His someday-dreams of becoming a writer got waylaid by bad decisions that resulted in a two-year prison sentence. Since getting out, he's...