The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida: a novel of modern Japan

University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of 'Rainbirds', Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful facade, unmasking her most painful secrets.