Izumi Suzuki is a Japanese author who prior to her writing career of the 1970s and ’80s worked as a model and actress. Her fiction was largely of the science fiction variety (two books of short ...

Izumi is a woman on the edge who never wants to stop teetering. In “Set My Heart on Fire,” set in 1970s Yokohama’s underground music scene, the groupie narrator roams from conquest to conquest, and ...

“Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships. By Molly Young When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

“It’s a sad story,” states a character at the end of “Set My Heart on Fire,” Izumi Suzuki’s first novel to be translated into English. Known for her science fiction, Suzuki switches genres to tell the ...

Set My Heart on Fire closes without any notable progress or change; just the numbness with which you’re left when heartbreak begins to lift. Suzuki isn’t one to offer catharsis. And yet the very ...