Where the Heart Returns: A Novel of Heartbreak, Healing, and Second Chances in Japan

Author:   Alice Corwin
Publisher:   Independently Published
ISBN:  

9798254250296


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   30 March 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Where the Heart Returns: A Novel of Heartbreak, Healing, and Second Chances in Japan


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When Lena's husband confesses to a seven-month affair, she does not cry. She washes the dishes. She goes to the spare room. And a few weeks later, when the project she has been holding together finally closes, she books a flight to Japan. Not to escape. Or at least, that is what she tells herself. Since childhood she has carried a memory of a forest from a beloved Japanese animated film, ancient and mossy and entirely real in her mind. Now, finally, she is going to find it. What she does not plan for is Noah. What she does not plan for, either, is everything else. A shrine inside an ancient forest. An Obon Festival at sundown where lanterns drift across a dark lake and people write their wishes in the quiet. The conversations that arrive sideways, on late trains and in narrow bars, saying things she had not known she needed to say. And underneath all of it, one question she did not know she was carrying until Japan made her still enough to hear it. What do you actually want your life to feel like? Not what makes sense. Not what is reasonable given everything. What do you actually want. She built everything carefully. She held it all together. She was very good at both of those things. But somewhere along the way she stopped being able to tell whether she was living inside her life or simply maintaining it from the outside. Where the Heart Returns is a quiet, luminous novel about heartbreak, self-discovery, and the particular honesty of being somewhere entirely new. About the things we carry without knowing their weight. And about what happens when you finally stop long enough to hear the question you have been avoiding. Some answers only come when you are far enough away to see clearly.

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Author:   Alice Corwin
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.163kg
ISBN:  

9798254250296


Pages:   134
Publication Date:   30 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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