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Content warnings: Mention of murder, suicide, child death
Language learning: This is a smooth, fluid read. While there are some advanced grammar points in here, it's the same ones repeated over and over. Further, most sentences are relatively short and ideas are repeated multiple times. The only challenge here I can think of is that some things are left intentionally vague.
Basic plot: A man and a woman spend an evening together where each wants to get information out of the other relating to a specific day and event the previous summer.
Review: Once again, I'm giving 4 instead of 5 stars to 恩田陸 due to the ending/wrap up when I loved the rest of the book. If having a solid, satisfying ending is of crucially important to you, better to skip. If you are more about the ride, go ahead and give this a whirl. The ending isn't bad, it just didn't deliver.