A Moment in the Sun

Tory Gates

Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Rei Murata appears to have everything: good looks, brains, artistic skill and admiring friends. But Rei is a survivor—of loss, neglect and of self-isolation. Locked away from a world where...

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Sixteen-year-old Rei Murata appears to have everything: good looks, brains, artistic skill and admiring friends. But Rei is a survivor—of loss, neglect and of self-isolation. Locked away from a world where she felt unwanted, Rei was one of the millions known as the hikikomori.

A chance meeting leads Rei to discover the online world of the Dwellers. Astonished to find her former classmate Sho among their number, Rei is determined to rescue him. Rei learns she must come to terms with her past before she can face her future. For her peers, the barriers of class and society must fall, so they too can move forward.

No one is ever lost, Rei believes. She hopes to lead Sho, and the rest to their moment in the sun.

by Tory Gates
Page Count: 195
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Publish Date: February 26, 2016
Imprint: Brown Posey
Genre: Literary

FICTION / Young Adult / Contemporary
FICTION / Young Adult / Dystopian

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A YA book with a twist

This is a young adult book that I greatly enjoyed. It places us in a culture most of us only know from the movies, anime and manga. The book takes us through stages in Rei's life via flashbacks and current day references. This has lighter and darker moments and doesn't pull punches on the seamier side of this society. I enjoy books that bring me into their world and this book does that; it is important to me to care for the characters in a book and this is indeed handled quite well. Some of the issues touched on are love, the lack of love, the love of friends and of romantic love, loss of family, not having a support system of any sort, and distancing from society for personal reasons as a coping mechanism. These young people are in many ways better people as teenagers and are more mature and caring than I myself am. One sidelight that hopefully will not be a spoiler: the scene late in the book where the center group sings and chants struck a chord in me. In short, this book affected me emotionally by making me happy, sad and proud.