![]() ![]() The book opens with Moriguchi starkly delivering her final lecture to her classroom before her resignation. ![]() However, few family tensions are worse than the familial dynamic in Kanae Minato’s novel “Confessions,” which tells the story of mother and teacher Yuko Moriguchi, who finds her four-year-old daughter, Manami, floating dead in the middle school’s swimming pool at the hands of two of her students. Beach balls soaring above hay-yellow sand, on which crowds of restless teenagers mingle under the strobe lights of the drunken sun isn’t the typical spring break montage for all.įor some, the week-long break entails awkward family reunions, when elated mothers parade their college-proficient kid - now well-versed in the theories of Hobbes and Locke - to distant relatives. ![]()
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