About the book: 2006 / Fifteen-year-old Megumi’s mother leaves her family. According to Japanese customs, the girl is now separated from her until she comes of age - for seven whole years. Megumi is left with an indifferent father, who is rarely at home, and a grumpy grandmother, from whom you never get a kind word. A ruff, intelligent and principled teenager is acutely aware of his loneliness. But then chance brings her into contact with Dr. Mizutani, a young woman who runs a clinic for sick wild birds. The girl begins to visit her and take care of her feathered patients.…