Abstract

30 years old, contract employee, no boyfriend.
She somewhat moved from Sapporo to Tokyo, working there while still not becoming anyone in particular.
One day, she decides to return to her hometown for the care of her father.
Unable to find a job due to the COVID-19 pandemic, classmates from her student days are busy with marriage and raising children.
In the stifling daily life, the only thing that shines her is "favorite" idol.

Author’s Information

Born in Hokkaido in 1979. In 2012, he won the 46th Hokkaido Shimbun Literary Award (Creation/Criticism Category) for ``Tosho Jiji''. In 2014, she received the Miura Ayako Literary Award for ``The King of the Storm,'' in 2016 she won the JRA Equine Culture Award for the same work, and in 2019 she won the 21st Haruhiko Oyabu Award for ``Nikudan,'' and in 2020 she won the 39th New Year Award for ``Atonement to the Earth.'' Received the Tajiro Literary Award. In 2002, he was nominated for the 167th Naoki Prize for ``The Strangler Tree.''