The Eighth Day

by Mitsuyo Kakuta

The year is 1985. Kiwako is an ordinary office worker, in love with a married man, until an unwanted abortion causes her to snap. She kidnaps her lover's six-month-old baby and runs away with her, eventually taking refuge in an all-female religious commune. Here, she attempts to raise the girl. Fifteen years later, the child, Elena, is an adult contending with the difficulties of returning to her "natural family," made up of a mother who doesn't come...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4770030886
• ISBN13: 9784770030887
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"