A gritty and tender coming of age story about a young woman in Southern Ohio who joins a scrap metal crew to earn money for college, but soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
The 1973 novel was written by Kobo Abe and follows a nameless man who gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, encountering a range of characters as he wanders the streets of Tokyo。