
“My monolithic expectation of what a woman’s body was supposed to look like had no bearing on what actually happened to my body. The two things were wholly unrelated. I never became the woman I imagined. And what was I expecting?”
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Breasts and Eggs: A powerful and intimate novel about what it means to be a woman in modern Japan
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