How to Hold Someone in Your Heart

About

Ayumi inherited his grandmother's gift: during a full moon, following precise and unbreakable rules, he can arrange meetings between the living and the dead. By day he designs toys in Tokyo. By night he navigates the raw, unfinished grief of strangers — a film star seeking the father who abandoned him, a cook whose love outlasted the woman he adored, a historian desperate to meet a forgotten sixteenth-century warlord. Tsujimura writes supernatural premises with the warmth and structural care of someone who genuinely believes in the healing power of one last conversation. Each client's story is a self-contained emotional puzzle. This is a novel about the things we never said — and the strange mercy of discovering it's not too late to say them.