Excerpt from Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori

Vanishing World

by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
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We decided that I would be artificially inseminated once I turned thirty-five, and we also started saving to buy a house.

Everything went smoothly. When I reported this to my mother, she said only half-jokingly, "A marriage that goes too smoothly gives me the creeps."

From Vanishing World © 2015 by Sayaka Murata. English translation © 2025 by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher, Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc. All rights reserved.

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