In 1877 Kyoto during the Meiji Restoration Era, Maru Hosokawa, a samurai's daughter, encounters ghosts, mysteries, and a kitsune who offers her help in exchange for confronting a demon, as she navigates the challenges of a changing world.
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In 1877 Kyoto during the Meiji Restoration Era, Maru Hosokawa, a samurai's daughter, encounters ghosts, mysteries, and a kitsune who offers her help in exchange for confronting a demon, as she navigates the challenges of a changing world.
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Immersed in 1877 Kyoto, Japan, Natalie Anna Jacobsenââ?¬â?¢s novel ââ?¬Å"Ghost Trainââ?¬Â? follows Maru, a woman with a hidden identity tucked inside an okiya- a traditional geisha house. Jacobsen weaves dualities: a real-world setting populated with folklore characters, the culture clash as the Western world is intertwined with Japan after it re-opens its borders, and a society where women are empowered and oppressed.
Maru Hosokawa, whose real name is Mayuki, has been placed with a geisha after Maru�s samurai father relinquished his sword to the Meiji emperor. Men loyal to the emperor search her home and interview her, trying to determine if her father is trading with the Portuguese, as he claims, or if his travels to Satsuma are to assist with the growing samurai rebellion.
Layered on this brewing political upheaval are visions of ghosts and spirits. Girls are disappearing, rumored to be sacrificed to the train, and Maru seems to be the only person who sees ghostly figures. She is visited by a hungry, wounded fox who pleads for her help and, in exchange, offers assistance in learning the truth about her father. Maru initially rebels, knowing that fox kitsune are tricksters, shape-shifting spirits. But she relents after realizing that the fox is also aware of the spiritual upheaval plaguing Kyoto.
Maru navigates a world of metaphor and hidden meaning. Observing Mitsu, an apprentice to the geisha, Maru learns the complexity of subtle communication. Hand gestures, facial expressions, the shifting of a fan all contain nuanced meanings that she must untangle. She recognizes, as well, how women must struggle and fight for the finite bits of power and control society grants them. Innocent conversations among friends result in betrayal. Friendships from childhood erode when Maru�s peers question her integrity and her sanity. And when another childhood friend disappears and is presumed to be dead, Maru knows she must seek the truth.
ââ?¬Å"Ghost Trainââ?¬Â? by Natalie Jacobsen is a fascinating novel that rides the edges of magical realism and history. Although intended for teens and young adults, adults who loved ââ?¬Å"Memoirs of a Geishaââ?¬Â? or Netflixââ?¬â?¢s award-winning series ââ?¬Å"Blue Eyed Samuraiââ?¬Â? will enjoy this novel as well.
