‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

I may personally hope to be a warm, life-affirming person with strong social bonds, but given the rage that customarily greets women who don’t feel put on the planet to be earth mothers, giving trees, community glue, or moral consciences, their icy or insurgent rejection of such roles can be a bracing, doxa-rearranging pleasure.