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The author collaborated with three mothers who lost their child to tell their stories in manga form. Two of the children had congenital issues, and the third died suddenly of ventricular fibrillation - the author later collaborated again with the family for an educational manga focused on the mother's efforts to promote AEDs and life-saving training in Japan (https://learnnatively.com/book/89fd508214/).
I had to read this in three sessions because each story made me cry.
In terms of language, this is slightly harder than some of Kawasaki-sensei's other works because the dialogue is denser with medical terms. A few of the more obscure words (names of genetic disorders, for example), are explained in side notes.