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The 21-year-old Usami Suzu, who won the Akutagawa Prize, made her debut with a topic that focuses on her original family! The ultimate confession of love for my mother! The ultimate confession of love for my mother is that I want to give birth to my mother so that she can start a happy and perfect life again. Winner of the Mishima Yukio Award and Japan Literary Award. The 19-year-old protagonist Xiaotu is repeating her studies, but neither she nor her mother can hold on any longer. Her mother has not felt the love of her grandma since she was a child, and because of her father's cheating and domestic violence, she suffered from heart disease after the divorce and was drunk all day long. Xiaotu can only find some comfort in a small social network. A fragile mother, a selfish father, Little Rabbit who was born a girl, a family connected by blood... Little Rabbit hates everything that restrains him, and even more hates himself who is restrained. With a reckless prayer, she set off to Kumano alone, to save her fragile and about to collapse mother in a simple way unique to her age.

My body swayed with the car, and my cheek felt cool against the car window. Kako opened her eyes slightly. Whenever lights flash outside the car, I subconsciously lower my breath. The car is full of people. Mother's breath, father's breath, brother's breath, and Yoshiko's own breath are exhaled, blended, and inhaled again, maintaining survival in this way. How could it not be painful? 17-Year-old girl Kako drove to her grandmother's funeral with her family. With the enclosed space inside the car, the scenery in my memory flashed outside the window, and the past and present of the family gradually became clear...