Join us for a conversation with Polly Barton, translator of Mieko Kanai's Mild Vertigo.
In Mild Vertigo, housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Toyko apartment with her husband and two sons. With shades of Elena Ferrante and Lucy Ellman, this verbally acrobatic novel by esteemed Japanse novelist Mieko Kanai is disconcerting and radically imaginative.