![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nao herself regards her diary as a protracted suicide note-but one she will not finish until she has committed to its pages the life story of her 104-year-old great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun named Jiko. Seemingly unmanned by his professional failure, her father, Haruki, has attempted suicide. Humbled by poverty since her father lost his high–income tech job in Silicon Valley and had to move the family back to Japan, Nao has been bullied mercilessly in school. The setting is hardly ordinary, but Nao, as she is called, is not an ordinary girl. She is drinking coffee in a cafe where the waitresses dress like French maids and a greasy–looking patron gazes at her with dubious intent. Amid the garish neon glare of a district of Tokyo known as Akiba Electric Town, sixteen–year–old Naoko Yasutani pours out her thoughts into a diary. ![]()
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