Tearful rave reviews have sent this bestseller back to the printers again and again.

A touching story of love and fate to define the modern era.

This transcendent novel won the 30th Shimase Award for Love Stories and was nominated for the Naoki Prize, which author Michi Ichiho would go on to win this summer. The novel ranked #2 on Kinokuniya’s Best Books of 2022 and #3 on the 2023 Japan Booksellers Award List. The protagonists, Yuzu and Kanon, tell their story through three sections divided into childhood, high school, and their adult lives.

One day, young girls Yuzu and Kanon meet by chance in the yard of an old apartment complex. Their family situations are polar opposites—Kanon desperately poor and neglected, while wealthy Yuzu struggles with a strict, overbearing mother. The whims of fate bring them together only to tear them apart, the cycle repeating itself over and over again. In all, they have only met a handful of times, but the two girls leave an indelible mark on each other’s lives. Years down the road, they crash together once again as adults with families of their own. But that same unbreakable bond calls out, unmuted by the sands of time. Through every dark tunnel and shadowed turn, Yuzu and Kanon always part with the same words of utter devotion—see you somewhere bright.