Exclusive: ‘Just as You Are, You Are Already Someone Wonderful’, Says Michiko Aoyama
\n\nA couple of weeks back, Michiko Aoyama sat down with Times Now for an exclusive conversation. I went in expecting to talk about tea, cafés and the gentle comfort her novels are loved for. I came out with something more surprising. Aoyama is the Japanese author behind the multi-million-copy bestseller 'What You Are Looking For Is in the Library', which turned a quiet community library into a place readers across the world wanted to visit. Since then she has written 'The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park' and 'Hot Chocolate on Thursday', her first visit to the Marble Café.
\n\nHer latest, 'Matcha on Monday', takes us back there. Its tiny matcha café opens only when its owner feels like it. Aoyama, too, spoke with a quiet certainty that kept turning my questions back at me. When I suggested that very little happens in her stories, she politely disagreed. When I called her work comfort fiction, she told me some readers find it cruel. Here is the full interview:
\n\nMatcha on Monday (Picture Credit – Amazon)
\n\n1. MATCHA ON MONDAY is built around the idea that change begins in…
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