Publisher's Synopsis
The starting point of national writer Miyuki Miyabe's writing. A collection of short stories of youthful mystery. A high school student and her frail sister, who are disturbed by the noise of a barking dog next door, originally want to sneak in while their neighbor is out exercising and get rid of the noisy dog. In the night of heavy rain, a strange woman carrying a small baby girl broke into my house, claiming that the baby girl in her arms was my father's daughter. I couldn't bear to kick them out, but I knew that she was lying. "Is it true that cacti have superpowers?" As the head teacher, Kakuto was faced with a dilemma when the sixth grade class proposed a topic for their final year study: "Should we encourage the children to try to communicate with foreign bodies?
