[DeepL Translation - needs review] Must-Read Family Fiction in 2023
What do you do when your family fails you?"
The year is 1943, when the effects of the Pacific War are beginning to take hold. Teiko Yamaoka, who had moved to Tokyo from her hometown of Gifu and was a javelin thrower at the Japan Women's Physical Education College, retired when she broke her shoulder and became a substitute teacher at a national school. Teiko began her teaching life in Koganei, West Tokyo, with the intention ...
