{"product_id":"real-world-9780307267573","title":"Real World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReal World\u003c\/strong\u003e by Kirino, Natsuo. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780307267573.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.\n\nIn a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure entry into good colleges. There’s Toshi, the dependable one; Terauchi, the great student; Yuzan, the sad one, grieving over the death of her mother—and trying to hide her sexual orientation from her friends; and Kirarin, the sweet one, whose late nights and reckless behavior remain a secret from those around her. When Toshi’s next-door neighbor is found brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor’s son, a high school boy they nickname Worm. But when he flees, taking Toshi’s bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers—dangers they never could have even imagined—that rises from within them as well as from the world around them.\n\nPsychologically intricate and astute, dark and unflinching, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985033883701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307267571","price":29.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307267573_bb5d2d90-a941-4d32-9d4f-adbce5f4748f.jpg?v=1778933781","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/real-world-9780307267573","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}