How to Hold Someone in Your Heart

Mizuki Tsujimura's "How to Hold Someone in Your Heart" is a tender, introspective exploration of love, regret, and the mysterious boundary between life and death. Continuing the universe introduced in 'Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon,' this novel follows Ayumi, a young man gifted with the ability to reunite the living and the dead under the glow of a full moon. Through Ayumi's quiet empathy, Tsujimura turns the extraordinary into something deeply human—a meditation on closure and connection that finds meaning not in miracles, but in emotional truth. Each reunion he arranges becomes a small, self-contained story, illuminating what it means to hold someone in memory even when they're gone. The novel's structure unfolds like a series of ripples—calm on the surface yet devastating in their emotional reach.

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Tsujimura’s restrained prose creates a space for reflection, refusing melodrama in favor of gentle poignancy. Ayumi remains more an observer than a hero; his reserved nature and quiet questioning give the book an understated intimacy. The people he helps—a grieving father, a forsaken actor, a cook seeking forgiveness—become vessels f