This allows the young narrator to reflect on his time with his stepmother, including how she wrote a short story based on true experiences about Mrs. In “The Little Dustman”, the young narrator is on the way to his stepmother’s funeral, but the train is delayed by a snowstorm. Strangely, the husband’s corpse is found missing its hands, while the carrot crop yields hand-shaped carrots. grows kiwis, and has murdered and buried her husband on the hill.

J”, the narrator, a writer and stepmother, moves into a hilltop apartment building surrounded by gardens and orchards, and owned by Mrs. On the way home, deeply saddened, the girl breaks into a kiwi storage house to eat through her sadness. In “Fruit Juice”, the young girl who runs the bakery invites a boy to accompany her to meet her father for the first time since her mother is dying of cancer. The woman must impatiently wait on the girl who is running the bakery. Nothing in the woman’s life has been right since then, including her own suicide attempt, and her husband leaving her. She does this in honor of her son, who has been dead for twelve years. In “Afternoon at the Bakery”, a widowed mother heads to a bakery in her new neighborhood to purchase a strawberry shortcake. All of the stories deal with death or revenge in some way, shape, or form. “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales” is a collection of eleven dark, short stories by Yoko Ogawa which have common strands of plot between them, but which stand on their own separately.

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