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The best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings ... Deeply original. O, The Oprah Magazine
Milena Michiko Flaars beautiful novel ... is a story about freedom and responsibility, and it results in an almost Sartrean meditation. Times Literary Supplement
Exceptional ... In todays less-than-brave new world in which sincere human interaction is disappearing even as the numbers of so-called friends are multiplying, Necktie is a piercing reminder to acknowledge, nurture, and share our humanity. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog BookDragon
The quiet reflection of this jewel of a novel is revelatory, redemptive and hypnotic until the last word.Kirkus Reviews
A spare, stunning, elegiac gem of a book. Milena Michiko Flaar writes with a poets clarity of language and vision, probing deeply below the surfaces of familiar Japanese stereotypes