A review by jeeleongkoh
Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono, Angus Turvill

4.0

Abandoned by his mother, Takeru has to take care of an older brother who suffers from mental disability. Ono brings the reader right into the experience of the trauma. The language, as translated, is spare, and so gives lots of room for breathing and imagining. Not much happens, but what happens is elemental. The betrayal of loved ones. The kindness of strangers. And the enormous hope one can invest in a healing dolphin.