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Colorful: A Novel | Eto Mori

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"The soul of the deceased narrator, cleansed of all its memories of its past life, is heading toward the darkness when it suddenly encounters an angel. 'Congratulations!' the angel exclaims. 'You're the winner of our lottery! You're being given a second chance!' The next thing it knows, the soul is back on earth, occupying the body of fifteen-year-old Makoto who is planning to poison himself. Makoto is friendless, and his family shows him little love. Unable to feel affection for the people around him, he spends his time drawing or playing cards with the angel. But when it comes to discussions of which high school he should go to, Makoto is surprised to realize that his family and his teachers genuinely care about him. He has words with the angel: 'I want to give back Makoto's family the real Makoto.' The angel agrees, but on one condition: the soul has to remember his original mistake. 'Look around you,' adds the angel. 'There are clues everywhere.' Eventually, the soul remembers: he killed someone. And the person he killed? Himself, which is to say, Makoto Kobayashi.."--

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erzascarletbookgasm

Colorful: A Novel | Eto Mori

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This is an honest depiction of teenage life struggles in urban Japan that is relevant in the 90s when it was first written, as well as today. Bullying, education ‘rat race‘, pornography, ‘love hotels‘, suicide. In her afterword, Mori said she wanted to write a novel “that will allow young people who are tired of living to have a break from their own lives.” She wrote about these serious subjects with a little comical touch in..
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CBee

erzascarletbookgasm ..hope to appeal to them- about becoming a different person and living life all over again. Worth a read. 2y

CBee Awesome 👏🏻 2y

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SamAnne

Colorful: A Novel | Eto Mori

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Not my cup of tea. More YA than I was expecting. It is 20 years old and only recently translated into English. Sexism and judgement against women pervades. Frankly was shocked to get to the end and realize the author was a woman. It was a book club pick or I would have DNF‘d it. A soul is given a chance to go live in the body of a teenage boy who commits suicide. If he doesn‘t learn these lessons he can‘t be reincarnated.

Hooked_on_books I get so mad when women do that! Let‘s support each other, ladies! That‘s the only way this works! 4y

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