Story # 5 of The Elephant Vanishes: Sleep
(Murakami writes from a woman’s point of view in this one. Self found the effect a bit startling at first)
“I know why you’ve got so many patients,” I always say to him. “It’s because you’re such a good-looking guy.”
This is our little joke. He’s not good-looking at all. Actually, he’s kind of strange-looking. Even now I wonder why I married such a strange-looking man.
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