@dayfIy it really is a very very lovely and devastating book. my friend got back on meds after she read it?! and there's a line in the foreword by donald keene that always gets to me ...
"In a superb epilogue the only objective witness testifies, "He was an angel," and we are suddenly made to realize the incompleteness of Yozo's portrait of himself. In the way that most men fail to see their own cruelty, Yozo had not noticed his gentleness and his capacity for love."
anyway, i hope ure feeling better nowadays <3