Author: stephaniescott

“Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion.” –New York Times Book ReviewA gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What’s Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman’s search for the truth about her mother’s life–and her murder.In Japan, a covert … her mother’s life–and her murder.In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the “wakaresaseya” (literally “breaker-upper”), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the…