Kamihate Store Excerpt (2012)

Excerpt from Kamihate Store.

Chiyo runs a store, the same small place where her mother, now deceased, once sold baked goods of local renown. Her daughter, however, lacks the strength to continue the tradition. Instead, like the other people who live nearby, she blunders along, bound by her phobias and tired of a life filled with conflict rather than with people close to her heart. But how are the lone inhabitants of the hamlet and its visitors to find a way to connect when they merely brush past one another, unable to communicate, let alone express any goodwill?