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Burned out by her high-flying career, Yeongju opens a small bookshop in a residential Seoul neighbourhood and slowly gathers a barista, a knitting regular, a lonely teenager and others who need somewhere to be.
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Five Tokyo residents stuck at turning points in their work and lives find their way, one by one, to a community-centre library, where the librarian, Sayuri Komachi, hands each of them an unexpected book and a small felted gift.
The Healing Season of Pottery
Burned out by her job as a television writer, Jungmin, thirty, has barely left her Seoul apartment in a year when she wanders into a small pottery studio and signs up for lessons.
The Second Chance Convenience Store
When a homeless man returns the purse she lost at Seoul Station, Mrs Yeom, a retired teacher who owns a struggling convenience store, offers him the night shift, though he remembers almost nothing about himself.
The Great Passage
Mitsuya Majime, an awkward young publishing employee with a gift for words, is recruited to the dictionary department to help compile The Great Passage, a new dictionary its editors expect to take years.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
When her boyfriend tells her he is marrying someone else, Takako quits her job and moves into the dusty room above her uncle Satoru's secondhand bookshop in Tokyo's Jimbocho book district, a place she has never cared about.
Marigold Mind Laundry
Jieun, born with powers she couldn't control, has lived many lives searching for the family she lost, and now opens a laundromat in a village of marigolds where people can wash the stains of painful memories from their hearts.
The Easy Life in Kamusari
Fresh out of high school with no plans, Yuki Hirano is packed off by his teacher and his mother to a forestry training scheme in Kamusari, a remote mountain village with no phone signal where life runs on the seasons and the trees.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
A woman develops a tender relationship with her former high school teacher over sake and seasonal food.
The Dallergut Dream Department Store
Penny lands her dream job at the Dallergut Dream Department Store, five floors of dreams made by celebrated dream-makers and sold to sleepers, who pay with the feelings they wake up with.
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Hiding out after a burglary, three young thieves take shelter in an abandoned general store, and a letter asking for advice drops through the shutter, written decades earlier, when the old owner answered every one.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.