Hikikomori and the rental sister

Description:

Estranged from the husband who cloistered himself in his bedroom three years earlier after a devastating tragedy, Silke hires a young Japanese woman to draw him back into the world by establishing a deeply intimate relationship with him.

subjects: Grief,  Social isolation,  Intimacy,  Hikikomori,  Fiction,  Intimacy (Psychology),  Fiction, general,  New York Times reviewed