Mina's Matchbox Condition:Like New in a world spinning inexorably

in a world spinning inexorably out of control

Psycho-cybernetics bridges the gap between our mechanistic models of the brain's functioning (cliches like 'Your brain is a wonderful computer')

his difficult childhood

where there will be no more sin or sorrow

swarming chaos of stimuli

Mina's Matchbox Condition:Like New in a world spinning inexorablyA hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. In the spring of 1972, twelve year old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunts family. Tomokos aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working class family, and her magnificent homeand handsome, foreign husband, the president of