This book, excuse my language, was a mind fuck.
You know when a comedian has his first joke and the punchline is great? Then he moves on in the story about something unrelated and then all the sudden you are back at the same punchline and it makes it even better? That is this book.
Have you learned about the Butterfly Effect/Ripple Effect? Where one action causes another and so on until the bat of a butterfly wind is a tornado on the other side of the world or the little stone ripple on this side of the ocean is a huge wave on the other? That is this book.
Yuko Moriguchi is a single parent that works as a school teacher. Her four-year-old daughter Manami is found dead on the grounds of the middle school where she works. It was ruled a tragic accident but Yuko knows better. Before she leaves the school though she has one more lecture and one more lesson to give. This sets ripples that were already going through the students to grow exponentially and over the course of the next school year to grow into a wave of punishment, despair, fear and anxiety to tidal over everyone.
This was told in multiple perspectives covering relatively the same time frames and events. It was a crazy ride and being a shorter novel packed a gigantic punch.
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