Haha No Isan Shimbun Shosetsu Jo (Chuko Bunko)

[Machine Translation] On the day her mother, who is now over 80 years old, is rushed to the hospital with a broken bone, Mitsuki finds a flower-patterned tissue case in her husband Tetsuo's drawer. As her mother, now institutionalized, continues to steal her time, Mitsuki thinks to herself, "Mom, when in the world will I die? When in the world are you going to die, Mom? Caring for her parents, her husband's infidelity, menopause creeping up on her, calculating her retirement fund... This is the story of a young woman who is deprived of her mother's time, and Mitsunori is left wondering when in the world she will die.

八十歳を過ぎた母が骨折をして病院に運び込まれたその日、美津紀は夫・哲夫の引き出しから花柄のティッシュ入れを見つける。施設に入った母に時間を奪われ続け、美津紀は思う。「ママ、いったいいつになったら死んでくれるの?」親の介護、夫の浮気、忍び寄る更年期、老後資金の計算...実体験を交えて赤裸々に描き大きな話題を呼んだ、大佛次郎賞受賞作。