Second Hand Love is the follow up volume to last year's Talk to My Back.  The two pieces collected here are prime Yamada Murasaki from the 1980s.  They provided – and continue to provide – the much needed women's perspective in a field that was still almost completely occupied by men.  The lead off, "A Blue Flame" is really a graphic novella (and was in fact later adapted to a live action feature film, titled Bed-In, in 1986, that tells the story of a complicated adult romance.  Then there is the title story, which really zooms in on the woman's point of view of traditional gender roles in Japanese relationships. The last piece is a set of thirty-one half page illustrations executed for the novel A Loving Family by Mita Masahiro for it's orignal serialization in the Yomuri Newspaper.

There is also an interview with cum essay by  Yamada Murasaki, conducted in February of 1985, not long after the conclusion of the serialization of "A Blue Flame."

softcover  |  236 pages  |  black & white with some color

Edited and Translated by Ryan Holmberg.