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Set in Japan, these stories tip into the fantastical, plumb the power of memory, and measure the human capacity to love.

Chizuru Akitani is the twelve-year-old daughter of the famous violinist and Japanese Living National Treasure Hiro Akitani. Overweight and hafu (her mother is white), she is relentlessly tormented at school. When her mother dies suddenly and the cruelty at school only intensifies, Chizuru snaps in a moment of blind rage and fatally stabs a classmate in the neck.After seven years of institutionalization, Chizuru flees Japan for a new life in th...

Elle's 33 Best Books of the YearA Searing Debut Novel from One of the Most Imaginative Minds in FictionKelly Luce's Pull Me Under "is a suspense novel with a female protagonist that gets more right about women than so many others I've read in the past few years" (NPR).Luce tells the story of Rio Silvestri, who, when she was twelve years old, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio, born Chizuru Akitani, is the Japanese American daughter of the rev...