Ayako Minami’s debut volume includes the award-winning “Natsu ga Owaru.” It frankly portrays a woman on the verge of sex work, her urgent bodily awareness, and emotions shaken by love and desire.

A heated love story about the anxiety of not knowing who one will become tomorrow.

A reader-prize-winning short story from the R-18 Literary Award. A woman without a lover begins exchanging letters with an elderly man and slowly regains herself amid wounded days, in a story of quiet warmth.

Letters arriving in lonely days give the protagonist time to face forward again.