The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen. I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a distant tide. It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family something 'like you’d see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.