# Just So Happens

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- Book: [Just So Happens](https://www.bookquiver.com/fumio-obata/just-so-happens) ([Just So Happens.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fumio-obata/just-so-happens.md))
- Authors: [Fumio Obata](https://www.bookquiver.com/fumio-obata)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4811-351-4
- Published: 2014-02-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.' Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident. Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds herself immersed in the rituals of Japanese life and death – and confronting a decision she hadn’t expected to have to make. Just So Happens is a graphic novel by a young artist and storyteller of rare talent. Fumio Obata’s drawing, in particular, is marvellous in its power and delicacy.