Grass eyelashes

Anna is dead. And Rena wants to know why. Ever since Anna emigrated to the USA head over heels at the age of 19 to marry Reiko, Rena hasn't seen her school friend, letters and postcards come less and less often, Anna's husband never met Rena. When one day a parcel with Anna's diary and the obituary is delivered to her and Reiko is more and more persistent in his search for contact with her, Rena can't let go of her memories of her friend. And soon there is no retreating from the questions Rena has pushed away for so long: Where did the estrangement between them come from after a long, unbroken friendship? And what does Anna's last mysterious, almost hostile letter mean? In gripping, rapidly changing scenes, Ruth Johanna Benrath tells of the desire for closeness and love and the fatal effects of dependence and submission: the story.