It’s my hope that you’ll come to understand what a terrible thing you’ve done, and that you’ll beg forgiveness from Manami’s spirit.” “The incubation period for the HIV virus is usually between five and ten years,” she calmly explains, “so that should give you plenty of time to think about the value of life. They also know that Students A and B are not only guilty, but their teacher has put in motion her own revenge as she reveals she’s tainted A and B’s milk cartons. By the end of her talk, the class knows far too much about their teacher, the dead child, and the dead child’s dying father. ”Īlthough her daughter’s death was officially ruled a drowning accident, Yūko knows otherwise: two of her own students were responsible. But before she goes, she’d “like to take some time today to talk to you about. She announces to her middle grade class that she’s retiring at the end of the month, and that she’ll never teach again. Nothing haunts more than a dead child – and that’s how Confessions begins: Yūko Moriguchi’s young daughter is dead.
That debut author Minae Minato wrote it, according to her bio, “between household chores” makes me shudder to think how frightening her next book might be now that she’s such an award-winning, internationally bestselling writer surely any chores she’s still doing only happen in between plotting her next twisted tale. Dare I say … this is one of the most horrifyingly gripping novels I’ve read in many years.
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