Kindle. A Japanese-inflected, zany-like-Tina Fey, Carver-influenced bunch of not-too-uncomfortable shorts. Barrodale, like Scranton, cites the Hagakure:
I told him that my family has been metropolitan for many centuries.
"Come from samurai."
"Samurai," he said, "so then, like me, you are already dead."
I guess that's the trope of the times. She plays some modern-ish games, like hiding the gender of a character to the end of a section, that put me in mind of Patrick White; I'm not sure the effort expected of the reader is respected though.
Nicholas Mancusi at the New York Times.