Washing Statue Wanderlust (The Kami no Sekai Series, #2)
About Washing Statue Wanderlust (The Kami no Sekai Series, #2)...
Yuki has spent her whole life playing it safe — early dinners, strict routines, and a monthly pilgrimage to wash a Buddhist statue she’s been talking to since she was a toddler. The statue, Arai, talks back. And Arai has a request: get me out of here. Bolted to the courtyard of a Tokyo temple and sick of being everyone’s spiritual car wash, the centuries-old Kannon statue wants to see the ocean, feel the sand, and experience the world beyond the endless parade of wet rags and whispered prayers. Yuki — a twenty-one-year-old diabetic college student who’s never left Tokyo — is somehow the only person willing to try.
What starts as an absurd heist attempt (step one: steal a temple statue; step two: flag a taxi) spirals into something much bigger. Yuki’s quest to free Arai forces her to confront the fears that have kept her frozen in place for years — the terror of a glucose spike far from home, the shame of being “the weird one,” and the quiet certainty that she’ll never be normal. But between a best friend who curses out old ladies on her behalf, a sympathetic priest, and a statue with zero chill and a flair for guilt-tripping, Yuki discovers that the courage she’s been praying for was inside her all along. (A beach trip doesn’t hurt either.)
Washing Statue Wanderlust is a warm, weird, and deeply heartfelt story about chronic illness, unlikely friendships, and the radical act of believing — in talking statues, in yourself, and in the idea that the world is worth seeing even when it scares you half to death.
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Cozy Fantasy
Publication Date: April 24, 2015
Series: The Kami No Sekai Series, Book #2
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Washing Statue Wanderlust – Chapter 1
“Why do we keep coming here? I must really love you to keep doing this over and over again.” Koharu sighs and checks her phone again, for the eleven-billionth time...
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The sun peeks over the roof of the temple next to me, and the cat sleeping at my feet rises and stretches, her long orange tail pointed straight up in...
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“Why do we have to take the statue with us? I don’t get it. You’re not making any sense.”
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Yuki is only gone for the day before she returns right before closing. She smiles and waves to me but walks past to the shrine.
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I take Arai’s advice and go to Kyoto. I’m twenty-one years old and completely capable of taking care of myself, so I should go.
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Yuki doesn’t visit for a week, and thinking she must be having an excellent time in Kyoto, I try not to worry about her. I’m a statue and yet I...
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I spend all evening loading photos onto my tablet and calling up information about each destination so I can tell Arai more about the images as I display them to...
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“I’m sorry for constantly badgering Yuki to take me away from here, but what was I supposed to do. ” “You were supposed to sit and do your job.
Read NowWashing Statue Wanderlust – Chapter 9
I curl my toes in the sand, flexing and relaxing my feet, as people run and play around me. The sun is gorgeously warm at this time of day, and...
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