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Hollow Inside
- Author
- Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Narrator
- Nancy Wu
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 6 August 2026
- Run Time
- 2 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines.
Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy. When a crisis jolts her back into the world of dating apps, Hirai meets more painfully adequate men and frets about freezing her eggs again. Surely there must be another way to feel less hollow? Witty and deadpan,
Hollow
Inside is a wonderfully skewed story of two single women trying to carve out their own space in a world of couples.
Critics Review
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Invites readers to think more fully about how women might assert their independence in societies still designed in many ways for men-and to imagine what might get upended in turn
Atlantic
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Offers a poignant, sobering slice-of-life examination of contemporary society familiar across cultures and countries
Booklist
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A candid and moving depiction of a woman struggling under societal pressures to conform
Library Journal
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Details
- Author
- Ginny Tapley Takemori
- Narrator
- Nancy Wu
- Duration
- 2 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781807760519
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague, Suganuma, people raise eyebrows, but the two women quickly settle into their own soothing domestic routines. Yet escaping the pressures of romantic love isn't easy. When a crisis jolts her back into the world of dating apps, Hirai meets more painfully adequate men and frets about freezing her eggs again. Surely there must be another way to feel less hollow? Witty and deadpan, Hollow Inside is a wonderfully skewed story of two single women trying to carve out their own space in a world of couples.
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