![]() This captures the sociopathic aura of maniacal revenge that consumes Moriguchi as she confronts her pupils, Shuya Watanabe and Naoki Shitamura, directly and later inconspicuously throughout the text. The book opens with Moriguchi starkly delivering her final lecture to her classroom before her resignation. However, few family tensions are worse than the familial dynamic in Kanae Minato’s novel “Confessions,” which tells the story of mother and teacher Yuko Moriguchi, who finds her four-year-old daughter, Manami, floating dead in the middle school’s swimming pool at the hands of two of her students. ![]() Beach balls soaring above hay-yellow sand, on which crowds of restless teenagers mingle under the strobe lights of the drunken sun isn’t the typical spring break montage for all.įor some, the week-long break entails awkward family reunions, when elated mothers parade their college-proficient kid - now well-versed in the theories of Hobbes and Locke - to distant relatives. ![]()
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