Hiyoko Taiyo is a linked story collection centered on a writer-narrator who cannot write, as delusion, suicidal ideation, and a request to find a missing person begin to entwine. Shinya Tanaka depicts a precarious everyday life poised between fact and fiction with his characteristic tenacity.

A writer's unblinking gaze at his own inability to write tilts everyday life toward delusion and the temptation of death.