The majority of the novel has some strong feminist undertones and messages. Circumstances become more complicated as dangerous outside forces also become intertwined in the incident. Gradually, each of the women gets involved in some way or another. With no one else to turn to, she begs one of her friends from the factory – Masako – to help her dispose of the body. One of the women is abused by her husband, and after a particularly bad brawl, she snaps and kills him. All of them lead pretty despairing lives in one way or another. The story follows four women in Tokyo who all work the same night shift together at a factory that makes boxed lunches. However, the last two chapters or even the last six pages or so really killed it for me.īefore I go into that, a brief outline of the plot. Once I got the flow of the story, I was really into it and it held a lot of promise for me. It took me a bit to get into the book and the flow of the writing, (which was different than most books I usually read, and this is, I believe, the first Japanese novel I’ve read that wasn’t a manga). I definitely had some conflicted feelings throughout reading Natsuo Kirino’s Out.
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