{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "Mornings Without Mii",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "mornings-without-mii",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Mayumi Inaba",
      "slug": "mayumi-inaba",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_US",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2025-02-25",
  "genres": [],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/fsg-originals/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii_978-03-7461-478-2-ae276543.webp?v=2026-10-21%2004%3A28%3A29",
  "description": "INDIE BESTSELLERWinner of the Sasakawa Foundation Translation PrizeA New Yorker Best Book of the Year So FarA Must-Read: Literary Hub * The Millions * Kirkus Reviews * Shelf Awareness * BookPage * BookBub\" A great love story.\" -Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker\" I have never read a book quite like this. Profoundly real, specific, moving, and beautifully written.\" -Elif Batuman, author of Either/OrMornings Without Mii is a beloved Japanese modern classic: a deeply affecting story of solitude, independence, writing, grief, love, and life alongside a cat. On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze off Tokyo's Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to the riverbank and finds a newborn kitten only the size of her palm dangling from a fence, abandoned. Overcome by tender affection, she takes the cat back to the small apartment she shares with her husband and christens her Mii: so begins an ineffable bond. Over the next twenty years, we follow Inaba, a poet and novelist by moonlight, as she pursues quiet, solitude, and a room of her own. Through it all, her cat, a fiercely independent creature in her own right, is her confidante and muse. From the late Mayumi Inaba, a winner of the Kawabata Prize and the Tanizaki Prize, Mornings Without Mii is not just a love letter to companionship: it's a poignant, searching meditation on the forces that enable us to connect, to create, and to build a life.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "Mornings Without Mii",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii/9780374614782",
      "publisher": "FSG Originals",
      "publisher_series": [],
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-03-7461-478-2",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2025-02-25",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/fsg-originals/mayumi-inaba/mornings-without-mii_978-03-7461-478-2-ae276543.webp?v=2026-10-21%2004%3A28%3A29"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}