Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.
 
In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing.