A review by astrangerhere
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto

5.0

"Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more -- it'ts sad, but that's the truth."

"Here we were, two ridiculously fragile people, sliding along on a very thin layer of ice all the time, each of us ready to slip and take the other down at any moment, the most unsteady of couples - and yet I believed what I had said. It would be alright."