Unable to get around without a wheelchair, the doll-like Josee leads asolitary,housebound existence. But when she meets her new live-in caretaker,a recent collegegraduate named Tsuneo, everything in her life is upended. “Josee, the Tiger and theFish” depicts the fragile, strangely eroticrelationship that blossoms between these twoyoung people. In addition to thetitle story, this collection also includes seven shorttales centering onworking women and the myriad loves and partings of their lives.