Yoshimoto, Banana - Goodbye Tsugumi

From the bestselling author of Kitchen: an elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside. Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.