PositiveThe Straits TimesThe story, told through Natsuko, explores the ways in which women rebel against social norms in Japan and the relationships between sisters as well as mother and daughter ... Author Kawakami displays a deft satirical touch in a scene in which a pudgy man with a wart, who claims his sperm is in the top percentile, offers to grease Natsuko\'s quest to be a mother, including the option of \"skin to skin\" delivery of his sperm. The translators have captured the musicality of Kawakami\'s prose, though it is hard to discern if they have managed to preserve the original\'s Osaka dialect ... Leavened by some comic moments, Breasts And Eggs is an ambitious work that takes a good crack at interrogating what makes a woman a woman and the precariousness of a woman\'s existence.
