In recognition of Women’s History Month in the US and in the lead-up to International Women’s Day on March 8, hosts Tamara Crawford and Vina Orden discuss celebrated Japanese writer Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs, her first novel to be translated into English. It is an intimate portrait of the lives of contemporary urban, working-class women that also boldly interrogates social and cultural mores around womanhood and sexuality—from internalized white beauty standards, to expectations of marriage and motherhood, to imposter syndrome and creative ambitions.