Asa: The Girl Who Turned Into a Pair of Chopsticks, by Natsuko Imamura (Faber 2024)

Neil
A collection of three strange, mysterious stories from a prominent fresh voice in Japanese writing, these stories were originally published in Japan between 2017 and 2020. Each starts in a quite normal, domestic setting, but quickly becomes magical and surreal, but the reader is carried along with the narrative. It's a quite special little book.