August Solo Book Club: The Forest Brims Over by Maru Ayase

Book Club attendees will discuss and analyze various themes found in Maru Ayase's The Forest Brims Over.

It is strongly suggested to have completed reading the book prior to attending book club. This allows open, in-depth discussion amongst members without the worry of spoiling the book for others.

If you are reading the book or interested in reading the book, please consider attending our Book Mixer where varying levels of reading progress are welcome. See profile for upcoming events.

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A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels

Nowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husband’s novels, depicted as a pure woman who takes great pleasure in sex. With her privacy and identity continually stripped away, she has come to be seen by society first and foremost as the inspiration for her husband’s art. When a decade’s worth of frustrations reaches its boiling point, Rui consumes a bowl of seeds, and buds and roots begin to sprout all over her body. Instead of taking her to a hospital, her husband keeps her in an aquaterrarium, set to compose a new novel based on this unsettling experience. But Rui grows at a rapid pace and soon breaks away from her husband by turning into a forest—and in time, she takes over the entire city.

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