Enjoyed and recommend. The author put together a very compelling and exciting story of personal pain and the development that comes from it. Surprising wisdom, especially given the young age of the author. A depth of feeling that felt true, as a parent of a teenager, that was so relatable. Delivered in a series of events that unfolded with growing momentum and dramatic conflict at increasing scale. While the cultures themselves didn’t have detailed development, the structures of the personal, local, regional, and global felt like they scaled to create the sense of a much larger world, even as we focused so much on one mountainside. The narrator did his best to represent different voices, and gave characters distinctive rhythm and timbre, but for me, he was unable to capture some of the critical emotional moments for Misaki.