April 7, 2020 9:37AM

Yukiko Motoya, author of The Lonesome Bodybuilder, gets a shout-out in The New York Times

Then there’s the current generation of young writers, a fearsomely talented group that includes Sayaka Murata (Convenience Store Woman), Yukiko Motoya (The Lonesome Bodybuilder), Hiroko Oyamada (The Factory) and now Mieko Kawakami, with Breasts and Eggs, her first novel to be translated into English.