Norwegian Wood

Midori rested an arm on the bar and looked at me. “There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I’m pretty sure.”

“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”

“Peace,” said Midori.

“Peace,” I said.

These lines aren’t really an encapsulation or a sample of what you can expect from this novel. However, the very first time I read about this novel, I read these lines in the review and they’ve stayed with me since then.

The blurbs describe it as a story of love, loss and sexuality in adolescence. In that sense all of us should find something to identify with in this novel.