A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing

A young woman on a journey of self-discovery in Japan is plunged into danger when her friend disappears, in this novel from an award-winning author.

Anna Layne was only nine years old when her mother abandoned the family home and returned to Japan without her. Raised by her English father, Anna has spent the following years trying to come to terms with this estrangement. Now twenty-one and a recent college graduate, she is teaching English at a high school in Osaka and hoping to connect to a...