Just So Happens

Fumio Obata’s debut graphic novel, published by Jonathan Cape in 2014, is a quietly powerful meditation on identity and belonging. It follows Yumiko, a young Japanese woman living in London, who returns to Tokyo after her father’s death, confronting the cultural and emotional gulf between her two lives. Obata’s delicate, watercolor-infused art perfectly complements this intimate, slice-of-life story about grief and the search for home.