num_pages: 208
description: A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot smoggy summer and endless cram school sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. Theres Toshi the dependable one; Terauchi the great student; Yuzan the sad one grieving over the death of her motherand trying to hide her sexual orientation from her friends; and Kirarin the sweet one whose late nights and reckless behavior remain a secret from those around her. When Toshis next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered the girls suspect the killer is the neighbors son a high school boy they nickname Worm. But when he flees taking Toshis bike and cell phone with him the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangersdangers they never could have even imaginedthat rises from within them as well as from the world around them.Psychologically intricate and astute dark and unflinching Real World is a searing eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.
language: English
title: Real World
publisher: Knopf