![]() Next there is a letter opener, a well-placed aim, a dead child, seven years of institutionalization and a request, not quite deportation, that upon adulthood she leave Japan. She’s mostly gotten by, mostly taken the torment, the tacks in her chair, the lack of warmth in her sequestered life of otherness, until her mother commits suicide (an extremely un-honorable, embarrassing concept to the Japanese) and her most hated bully takes advantage of the fact. She’s the daughter of “Living National Treasure” Hiro Akitani, a singularly talented and viciously distant father. Chizuru Akitani is half Japanese, half white, and already tormented for both that fact and her weight. Pull Me Under is both a story of bullying and deception, of guilt and the empty spaces where it should be. Then a package from Japan arrives, and it’s time to unravel the motivations of the past and prod the violence – the self-named black organ – to see if it still lives, if it’s still dangerous. ![]() As an adult, now running from her past, she’s tried to forget – and mostly been successful. Submerged Emotions and Violent IntentionsĪt 12, she stabs him to death in front of the class. ![]()
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