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After Dark parent’s guide: what’s inside
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After Dark is a sophisticated, character-driven novel set in Tokyo's nightlife that explores themes of alienation, connection, and hidden worlds. While not graphically violent, it contains mature content including sex work, assault, and existential darkness that require reader maturity. The contemplative, mysterious tone and literary ambition appeal to older teens comfortable with psychological complexity and moral ambiguity rather than plot-driven narrative.
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From the publisher
Set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, the novel features two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims... Set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, the novel features two sisters--Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny's toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they've met before, a burly female "love hotel" manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman.
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- Sisters
- Fiction
- Models (Persons)
- Students
- Loveable Characters
- Weak Character Development
- Character driven
- Diverse Characters
- A mix driven
- Not Diverse Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
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ISBN 9780307265838 · KODANSHA