Pink was a perennial seller at the shop, but we never got around to putting it up on the site... until now!

It has one of our favorite publisher descriptions:

"Yumiko moonlights as a call girl because her day job doesn’t pay enough to feed her pet Croc. Haru an aspiring writer who has nothing to say, sleeps with a woman his mother’s age not just for the money but to work on his “powers of observation”. So when Yumi’s step-mom turns out to be Haru’s sugar-mommy, it is time for shenanigans. A little bit of drinking, a little bit of blackmail and a visit with Croc is enough to change lives and maybe add some color to a comfortable but bland life.

Daddy kept Keiko’s mom as a pet; she keeps Haru as a pet; I keep Croc as a pet…Is Yumiko someone else’s pet?? Is she willing to let someone care for her like that?

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And here's the latest from Ms. Okazaki, now published by Kodansha here in The States, surprsingly, despite years of intervening inflation, at a lower price point; and with a somewhat more conventional publisher descriptoin.

"At the edge of the city not far from the sea, a field of goldenrod sways in the breeze, its veil of amber flowers obscuring secrets underneath. Old bones and forgotten memories rest in silence, waiting for someone to dig them up. This is where the lives of six young men and women intertwine in ways both tragic and extraordinary. Decaying secrets are revealed as they forge friendships from pain, find betrayal in pleasure, and stare into the face of death itself—in a field of gold by a stagnant river, under the smoke-filled skies.

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