5 lives in Japan

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

This is a short novel about 5 different walks of lives: a shopkeeper, a furniture manufacturer, a former magazine editor, an unemployed person, and a retired person. Each single one of them have a very different life from one another, but they all have 1 thing in common, the same community library that turns their lives for the better after a recommendation of the perfect book by the librarian. It is such a charming and heart-warming book, filled with the everyday scenes of a life in Japan.