“What You Are Looking For Is In The Library” by Michiko Aoyama is the compilation of stories of different people who are suffering in life due to a lack of focus and hope in their life and they are looking for something or someone who can help them and bring the change in their lives.

The story unfolds when they all somehow visit the community library where the librarian Sayuri Komachi welcomes each of them with the question, “ What you are looking for”? and after knowing about their current scenarios of life Komachi recommended each of them a book along with a handmade gift and later on those books proved to be changing points in their lives.

Through the stories, the Author beautifully shows the need to read books and the fact that reading books can create magic at any stage of life, it brilliantly shows the transformative power of books and libraries.

The strength of the book lies in its writing style: simple, graceful and elegant. Characters were penned very beautifully and the plots were intriguing these were the reasons why these stories easily connect with readers.

As the story was set in Japan, the major issue I found was reading and remembering the characters and places names but this didn’t harm the stories, these were my personal problems.

Overall, I loved reading every bit of it and I am going to recommend it every single time.

If you’re someone who is interested in reading Japanese books or if you’re planning to start reading Japanese fiction or if you want to know and understand the transformative power of books then it's a must-read book.