A summer mystery in which children sent to a rural town in Tohoku are drawn by disappearances, an old diary, and strange film footage toward a crime from the past. The shadow of a girl killed beneath the water links past and present.

A woman's reflection in a puddle awakens a summer from decades before.

A youth novel by Takuya Nagano built around the image of triangular-base baseball. Published as a story that uses childhood play and relationships with friends to look at time and human connection that may otherwise be lost.

Memories of a small playing field illuminate the ties among seven people once more.

A novel by Naoko Ogi that received an encouragement prize in the Pureful Novel Award. Centered on the upward impulse suggested by its title, it can be read as a work about the desire to break through confinement.

The phrase breaking through the sky signals a leap out of a closed place.