I finished the chapter of the 2-year-old’s parent getting herself out of a career/homelife rut, and I think if I hadn’t been so sleepy I may have cried in the scene where Fu-chan came to help tidy up after herself.

I am enjoying the theme of people finding ways to change their lives and find more fulfillment, but when I set the book down it feels very much like fantasy. I wonder if people in Japan just genuinely don’t have to worry about basic material needs when they shake up their careers.