Yui

Name: Yui Aoyagi

Study year and degree: 3rd year in genetics and social anthropology with a minor in human geography

Hometown: Chigasaki, Japan

Passionate about: Old stories, warm-lit lamps, development projects in suburbia, vintage jewelry, my grandmother’s cooking, cross-cultural relationships in cityscapes, monologues, overdressing, pomegranates

Fav book and why?

The entirety of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ series for its dark, dreamlike Barcelona, dramatic strangers and their flowery prose, Gothic homages, and obsessive ideas of love