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Akutagawa 2003 (second half) · Winner
I Want to Kick You in the Back
蹴りたい背中 · Keritai senaka
Risa Wataya · 19 when first published
Novel · 199 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Hatsu, a girl on the athletics team who has just started high school, and Ninagawa, a classmate obsessed with a fashion model, are both outsiders in their class, and a strange, prickly closeness grows between them.