sunny boy books

In the gray, rain-slicked streets of the Ota ward, seventeen-year-old Ren is a "ghost"—a boy who has learned to move silently to avoid the violence of his alcoholic father and the cruelty of school bullies. His only light is his mother’s quiet kindness and a promise to take his childhood friend, Akari, to see the ocean. But when a tragic accident claims his mother and his father’s resentment boils over, Ren finds himself standing in the path of a speeding truck, looking for a way out of a world that has grown too heavy to bear.