Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (2017 short story collection) Men Without Women (女のいない男たち "Onna no inai otokotachi") is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. Kafuku, a veteran and widowed actor, hires twenty-four year old driver Misaki Watari to chauffeur him around Tokyo due to his license being revoked due to a D.U.I. and glaucoma. During their trips, Kafuku occasionally tells her about his life as an actor and his late wife's extramarital
Hearts Beat Loud offers We’re Not A Band a record deal. Frank is ecstatic by the opportunity, but Sam turns it down. When Frank brings up her deceased mother’s possible approving view on the opportunity, Sam angrily storms out. Despondent, Frank bitterly rejects Leslie’s offer to save Red Hook. On the shop’s final day of business, Frank initiates a massive sale and apologizes to Leslie through a voicemail. He is visited by Sam, who with a change of heart convinces Frank to play live music with her as the customers browse the shop. The duo plays “Hearts Beat Loud”, "Blink (One Million Miles)",