What happens to people when they die? --They’re gone. - What happens when they’re gone? --They disappear, and that’s it. Three years after that conversation, Housuke’s mother died of illness. A few days after he and his father began living alone, his childhood friend Aki’s mother commits suicide. Then Aki is involved in a car accident, and even Yoichiro is … What is the shocking truth that a boy in the fifth grade of elementary school, who hopes for a small happiness with his father, arrives at ...
If there are sensitive topics for you, definitely peek the spoiler tags on this one, but do bear in mind they are spoilers.
Language difficulty wise I suspect people listening to this got a different experience than people reading the book. The author seems fond of using kanji for words that don't typically get written in kanji much these days (お早う, 何故 off the top of my head). But in general the vocab stretch wasn't too crazy aside from some less common idioms I spotted in a few places and qu