her name is tamika and her story is like broken glass. shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue. sex, lust, love and hatred . . . a small town in japan holds these secrets. an inspector, a mother, a father, a client and a body that fell from nowhere . . . sometimes there is no logic to life. nine stories - or one tale? WARNING: Explicit sexual content. For adults only. "Pain, loneliness, humiliation, and grief underlie these atomized, broken lives." Kirkus Reviews