This is a short, curious novel that has one of my favorite tropes, the violently angry philosophical tyrant in a 13 year old boy’s body. We are dealing with three characters over the course of many years and there’s a lot of moving back and forth in their lives. Noboru, our teenage tyrant, is leader of a gang of father-hating teen boys who are also good students. They are lead by Noboru’s who hatred for his absent father, who he believes is the source of […]