The protagonist of Blue is an apparently inconsequential twenty-seven-year-old girl. She is aware the manager of the hostess bar where she works is in love with a man and yet, after carelessly living with that same man, she realizes she is pregnant. When word gets out, she is forced to leave her job and find employment in a resort hotel. However, it takes her only one night to become fed up with her job and quit. While walking alone along a mountain path at night, a strange sight appears.

This is Kanako Nishi’s powerful debut novel, giving voice to the passions and perspective of modern women.