Snakes And Earrings

Hitomi Kanehara
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Running away from home into an unfettered new existence within Japan's underground youth culture, eighteen-year-old Liu befriends the seductive, body-pierced Ama and mysterious tattoo artist Shiba, friends whose increasingly reckless behavior forces Liu to make difficult choices.
Genres: JapanFictionJapanese LiteratureContemporaryAsiaRomanceAsian LiteratureYoung AdultNovelsLiterature
121 Pages

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