Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Singapore, Australia, the UK, and the US. The tug of Miwako’s strange, troubled spirit will wrench readers from the beginning. Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer. Goenawan’s luminous prose captures the deep emotions of her characters as they grapple with questions about family history, gender, and sexuality. After Miwako goes to Kitsuyama, a remote Japanese village, and commits suicide, Ryusei and Chie follow a trail of clues from letters and diary entries to understand why she killed herself. Goenawan conveys Miwako’s story in three parts, alternating from the gentle and heartbroken Ryusei, artist and late-night hostess Fumi, and wistful and anxious best friend Chie, who accompanies Miwako to get an abortion without knowing who had gotten her pregnant, having sensed that her friend had been raped. Ryusei is drawn by Miwako’s candor (“You seem pretty frivolous to me,” she tells him after admitting surprise at his deeper interests), but the two stay in romantic limbo as Miwako keeps Ryusei at a distance. They bond while browsing in an English-language bookstore, reading together in their university’s library, and assisting Ryusei’s sister, Fumi, at her painting studio. Ryusei Yanagi first meets fellow student Miwako Sumida at a restaurant near the Waseda university campus in Tokyo. Goenawan’s tender and tragic follow-up to Rainbirds follows a group of college friends grasping for answers after the death of their friend.
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In primis,the graphic is really uncommon for a manga:almost every page is colored and has a frame made with wood,tissue,burned paper,etc. Plastic girl is something special,it can't be really defined as a manga. One sacrificial act does result in several deaths that ultimately saves more lives. There's more psychological damage than anything else. A lot of injuries happen off page, like a dog/person fight and jet fights that result in some crashes and fatalities that are mentioned but not shown. There's a lot of ill-intent going around, and plans of global genocide. It is a touch creepy, but more nail-biting action/suspense. And the plot line really hit a home run with this scifi loving librarian I just love a good alien/monster invasion story. I liked the new characters introduced and watching the kids figure out how to out-maneuvre the bad guys. 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