1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, 925 pages.

Aomame, a fitness center instructor with a secret side-job / "mission in life," finds herself transported from Japan in 1984 to a slightly off kilter almost Japan; one wherein only she notices the changes. She calls this time and place 1Q84. Aomame is comfortable with the fact that she has never fit in with those around her. Tengo, a writer and "cram school" math teacher, knew Aomame twenty years ago, when they were both ten-year-olds. They shared a brief, strong connection all those years ago that neither has ever forgotten. When the world subtly shifts because of a book written by a seventeen-year-old girl, a book that Tengo secretly revises, both main characters become targeted by a strange religious cult that seeks to undo what Tengo and Aomame have done in the altered world. Convoluted, complex, and sometimes creepy, this is a great book and well worth the time needed to get through all 925pages.
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