Returning to her hometown for the first time in a decade, the narrator hears the voice of a childhood friend who was supposed to be dead. A missing mother, an inscrutable father, a foul-mouthed grandmother—uncertain memories flood in as the familiar countryside warps into something uncanny. A stunning debut that sustains a paranoid point of view through sheer technical precision, leaving even the narrator's gender and whose existence is real deliberately unclear.

Who existed, who disappeared—nothing here is certain.

Office worker 'Pen-Pen' racks up a thousandfold payment error at work while drowning in clothes-shopping debt at home, surviving only through relentless daydreaming. When words begin to devour reality, her broken language conjures a broken landscape. A hyperreal acceleration novel born from conversations with actor Nakano Taiga.

Her broken words call forth a broken world.