Cold Enough for Snow

A young woman has arranged a holiday with her mother in Japan. They travel by train, visit galleries and churches chosen for their art and architecture, eat together in small cafés and restaurants and walk along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow.

How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken? Cold Enough for Snow is a reckoning and an elegy. With extraordinary skill, the book creates an enveloping atmosphere that expresses both the tenderness between mother and daughter, and the distance between them.