Grocery Store Violetta
About This Novel
"Grocery Store Violetta" is a popular healing novella by Japanese writer Hana Terachi. As a Japanese spiritual story with the theme of "remembering the past and starting again", the story of the novel takes place in a grocery store called "Violetta", where the owner Sumire Kitamura makes and sells exquisite and unique "coffins". Each coffin is different and as beautiful as a jewel box. People buy "coffins" for various reasons, place their cherished memories in them to preserve and commemorate them, and finally bury them in the backyard of the grocery store as the end of a memory and start a new journey in their lives. By getting along with the store owner Sumire Kitamura, her son Rentaro Kitamura, and other guests who come to the store, the protagonist "I" learns the meaning of changing oneself and growing independently, and begins to re-examine the world from a new perspective.
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