A masterpiece filled with the universal appeal of first love

Mizuki Tsujimura, author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror

The skin-prickling sense of authenticity and recollections of love moved me deeply

Shion Miura, author of The Great Passage

What this novel depicts is a person who has no choice but to live the way she does. And it does not stop there. It also shows us, subtly but strongly, why we can move forward even though we are dragged down by regrets

Mitsuyo Kakuta, author of The Eighth Day

Needless to say, a debut novel can only be written once in a lifetime. It is like a concentrated juice that contains a continuous outpouring of thoughts about how to spin a sentence

Misumi Kubo, author of So We Look to the Sky