A review by black_girl_reading
Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono

4.0

Lion Cross Point by Masatsugu Ono was very brief, very good, and also vague in the best way. About a young boy slowly adjusting to life in his mother’s rural Japanese fishing community following a traumatic separation from her and his older, severely disabled, brother, this book shows the world through the eyes of a child slowly acclimating to a safe and loving environment while reckoning, with a child’s perspective, the enormous violence, neglect, and trauma he has left behind. There are ghosts, regrets, pain, and also hope in this book. A novella in length, but a novel in depth.