Komi, who feels an unsettling unease in her marriage, is drawn into a world where daily life and fantasy erode one another after finding a sticker tied to her childhood memories. A Gunzo Newcomer Literary Prize-winning work where reality and madness overlap.

A sticker she thought she had stuck on her childhood home appears on a pillar at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi.

On the banks of the Tama River, summer memories seen through the eyes of a five-year-old “I” rise to the surface alongside the lives of outsiders. A Gunzo Newcomer Literary Prize-winning work with the feel of renewal.

A summer miracle as seen through the eyes of a five-year-old on the Tama River bank.