Tamir loves the scene where a friend tells Tsukuru a strange story about a man his father met at a mountain inn, an example of Murakami's one-on-one conversations that feel like portals.
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ghosts of griefNovel about a man abruptly cut off by his four best friends who spends years haunted by it until a girlfriend insists he find out why. Tamir reads the opening, where Tsukuru spends half a year wanting to die, to show grief can be for lost friendships, and Mia hears depression in it and the shift from mourner to investigator.
don't pretend you aren't confusedThe book Tamir draws a personal lesson from. Tsukuru's four friends, each named for a color, abruptly cut him off after he leaves for university in Tokyo; years later he goes on a 'pilgrimage' to ask why and finds each has a justification. It mirrors Tyler's experience of being ghosted by three close friends.
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About three years earlier, three of Tyler's nearest and dearest friends cut him off. He was bewildered and feared something about him was 'too much'. What finally smoothed him out was…