But when he flees, taking Toshi’s bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers-dangers they never could have even imagined-that rises from within them as well as from the world around them. When Toshi’s next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor’s son, a high school boy they nickname Worm. There’s Toshi, the dependable one Terauchi, the great student Yuzan, the sad one, grieving over the death of her mother-and trying to hide her sexual orientation from her friends and Kirarin, the sweet one, whose late nights and reckless behavior remain a secret from those around her. In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |