I decided to read Kurt Vonnegut after his death, after hearing someone call him the Mark Twain of the 20th century. I was very surprised since I thought he was a philosopher like Kierkegaard. I don't know why, maybe because of the name. Or maybe because...

Rinko's mother asks her to spend her last month of vacation helping her widowed friend, Mrs. Hata. Don't you just love mothers who do others a service through their daughters. It's always easy to be helpful when you don't actually have to do anything....