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The narrator's family takes in a duck called Noritama, named by its last owner for reasons she never learns, and children start dropping by after school. When it falls ill and goes to hospital they stop coming, and the bird back two weeks later is smaller. Two more stories, 'Grandma's House' and 'The Forest Siblings', follow children's changing feelings around an old woman and her grandkids, and around the siblings next door.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

140 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2016 by Shoshi Kankanbo

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9784863852419 (original)