Ann Levin AP – Shibata-san, the only woman in her office group, is tired of cleaning up after the men. One day, when her section head asks her why dirty coffee cups are still lying around hours after a meeting, she improvises an astonishing lie. “I’m pregnant. The smell of coffee… triggers my morning sickness.” […]
Emi Yagi's debut novel, which won the prestigious Osamu Dazai Prize in 2020, offers a penetrating look at the pressures of Japan's work culture and gender expectations.
Shibata-san is tired of cleaning up after the men at her office, so she improvises an astonishing lie: "I m pregnant." So begins Emi Yagi s debut novel, "Diary of a Void," a bleak, acerbic, melancholy story of a woman who fakes a pregnancy to fight back against a workplace culture that expects women to tidy up and do all the menial chores around the office.
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