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In Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe draws readers into the amorphous world of Internet chat rooms-a world of people from all walks of life attracted by the possibility of being whomever they want to be.
Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family." Meanwhile, a female detective is assigned to protect the dead man's real-life daughter who complains of being stalked. As the real daughter confronts her father's alternate life, we are pulled into a psychological drama that pits reality and illusion against each other in astonishing ways.
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Sylvia Donovan
reviewed Shadow Family on July 24, 2012 Shadow Family
Extremely impressive.
Like Seicho Matsumoto, another favorite Japanese crime novelist, Miyabe is less interested in keeping the reader guessing 'who did it?' than in showing us how the detective(s) come to discover the murderer, and in this case, wring a confession. Miyabe is equally interested in exploring a social problem: in the last novel I read, All She Was Worth, it was the world of credit, loans, personal debt and bankruptcy; here it's the fantasy/alternate life the Internet provides.
Astute and well-written. She's excellent with character as well as plot.
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