リトル・バイ・リトル

Fumi has left school and fills her days with part-time work, at home with her mother and a half-sister still in her second year of primary school. An involved family history keeps darkening their calm life. Through the people around them, her calligraphy teacher Mr Yanagi, Shu, a boy her mother introduced, and the man who was once her second father, Fumi gradually ventures out toward a brighter world.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

155 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

First published

2002 by Kodansha

Author's age

19 when first published

ISBN

9784062116695 (original)