![]() ![]() ![]() Chizuru/Rio’s incarcerated teenage years happen over only a few pages then she leaves Japan for a new start in America at age 18. The book sounds gory, but most of it takes place long after Rio’s bloody childhood. ![]() Rio, once Chizuru Akitani, is a half-Japanese, half-American woman who murdered her bully when she was twelve. “The girl raised her palm,” begins Pull Me Under, “and stilled the room with five words: ‘This is not my blood.’” Thus are described the circumstances of protagonist Rio Silvestri’s early life. I’d heard the book is set in Japan, and I wondered about its relationship with Luce’s tumultuous experience there. After reading that harrowing story, I was interested in checking out Luce’s novel, which came out in November 2016. In this New York Magazine article, she describes spending a week in a Japanese women’s jail after being wrongfully accused of shoplifting. Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), wasn’t so lucky. Back when I taught English in Japan, the worst thing that happened to me was being denied entrance to a few restaurants. ![]()
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