Set My Heart on Fire
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Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.
Set My Heart on Fire is a visceral novel about mistaken relationships and the convolutions of desire, about regret and acceptance. Pulsing through the narration is the protagonist’s love of music, a vital soundtrack spanning the Zombies, T. Rex and the Rolling Stones as well as underground Japanese psychedelic-rock bands such as the Tigers and the Tempters.
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I finished this book in a daze. It took a while to build up to its momentum, then the ending hit me and grabbed me and pulled me into itself and I was enthralled with the messiness of everything, morbidly imagining the characters self-sabotaging but wanting them to fix things, then getting frustrated because real people fall into cycles like these all the time, and the overwhelming nature of it all was captured perfectly. I think the title perfectly matches the contents. For fans of: Danielle Chelosky "For me there's little distance between loving and hating someone."
Description
Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication, good music and unreliable men, powerful drugs and disorientating meds. Izumi usually keeps her relationships short but complicated, until she meets Jun.
Set My Heart on Fire is a visceral novel about mistaken relationships and the convolutions of desire, about regret and acceptance. Pulsing through the narration is the protagonist’s love of music, a vital soundtrack spanning the Zombies, T. Rex and the Rolling Stones as well as underground Japanese psychedelic-rock bands such as the Tigers and the Tempters.
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Posts
I finished this book in a daze. It took a while to build up to its momentum, then the ending hit me and grabbed me and pulled me into itself and I was enthralled with the messiness of everything, morbidly imagining the characters self-sabotaging but wanting them to fix things, then getting frustrated because real people fall into cycles like these all the time, and the overwhelming nature of it all was captured perfectly. I think the title perfectly matches the contents. For fans of: Danielle Chelosky "For me there's little distance between loving and hating someone."