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# The Quiet Arithmetic
- URL: https://readerly-ghost.listofbooks.net/the-quiet-arithmetic/
- Published: 2026-09-16T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-12T10:13:28.000Z
- Description: A retired maths teacher counts her way through a year of small losses. Beautifully written, if a little too restrained for me.
- Author: Nora Vale
- Tags: Literary fiction, #by:Jun Sato-Bell, #rating:3.5, #pages:272, #read

Emiko has retired from teaching mathematics and keeps counting anyway: steps to the shop, pills in a box, friends who still call.

The prose is lovely and exact. I wanted the book to raise its voice once, and it never quite does.