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Offshore LightningAnxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar JapanNazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she
Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar JapanNazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she stopped drawing to take care of her ailing parents. In her sixties, she took a job teaching drawing at Kyoto Seika University and became inspired by her talented students. When she returned to teaching, her storytelling interests had shifted. Before suffering a stroke she drew In Captivity" (2012) and "Solitary Death Building" (2015) - both focused on aging and death. Offshore Lightning collects Saito's early work as well as these two recent graphic novellas.
Stories like "Buy Dog Food and Go Home" and "Offshore Lightning" focus on middle-aged men caught in a cycle of self pity and self reflection. Saito gently pokes fun at their anguish and self-involvement while capturing the pathos of these men as they revisit childhood friendships and lost loves. By contrast, "In Captivity" follows three siblings visiting their ailing mother who is succumbing to dementia and resentful at her loss of agency. The siblings take a drive as they reckon with balancing the painful legacy of her caustic personality with attempting to honor this woman at the end of her life. "Solitary Death Building" documents an eccentric cast of elderly gossips as death descends upon the housing complex where they all live.
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Fun interactive pop-up book
Format: Board book
My 2-year-old loves fireflies, thanks to Grandma teaching him to “catch and release”. She then gave him this book to further encourage his fascination with fireflies. The book is a pop-up book and each pop-up has a round hole to shine the included flashlight through to make the fireflies in the book light up. To add to the fun, there are buttons to push to make sounds to accompany the story. Too much fun! Saw this at the store at a higher price, found it here at a discount. Worth every penny!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2024
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Product came in time. It was a decent price and the kids loved it.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2025
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No
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Very nice
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Great book
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All Eric Carle is great. Love the flashlight, brightness just right for bedtime fun too
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Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2023
★★★★★ 1
No flashlight
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There is no flashlight. Very disappointed
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Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2025
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