This book started out okay but quickly went downhill. The main character‘s decisions and actions made no sense. Events jumped around with little logic and there were about a million holes in the story. Like, how does a 16-year-old disinherited Japanese woman just wander around Europe for 7 years in the 1960s with no visible means of financial support? That‘s just one example. The ending was ridiculous and didn‘t fit with anything else in the book.