What they had to suffer through became a magnifying glass for the faults in their personalities and led to a variety of problems like infidelity, depression, and even murder. Each girl goes on to become a young woman deeply affected by their past. Penance is told from the different perspectives of those at the core of the devastating murder. Years later, just as the 15-year statute of limitations for the crime of murder was about to expire, the girls are forced to face the effects of the murder and the subsequent words as their own lives explode into chaos and Emily’s mother re-enters the picture one last time.
As the case grew cold and faded into the local folklore-except for those directly affected by it-the event and what Emily’s mother said after it became something akin to an emotional/psychological cancer at the core of the girls’ lives. As a result, Emily’s mother cursed the surviving girls and asked them to find the man or do penance for being murderers. Because everything happened so quickly, the four friends were unable to offer valuable details or a description of the murderer. That man raped and murdered the innocent girl and disappeared into anonymity for years. When they were young, Sae, Maki, Akiko, and Yuko were enjoying a regular day and playing with a ball when a man approached them and tricked them into allowing their friend Emily to go with him to solve a small problem. By exploring this territory, Minato has crafted a novel that simultaneously works as a brutal crime narrative and a psychological exploration of the lives of four women who are forced to grow up haunted by childhood trauma. As devastating as a murder can be for the immediate family of the deceased, there are also a plethora of individuals who feel those repercussions and whose lives can be forever impacted in deep psychological and emotional ways. This dark space is where Kanae Minato’s Penance resides. However, there is a lot of fertile ground for outstanding fiction in the ripples created by crimes as serious as rape and murder. What really happened that day-and what followed, for each of them, in the years after? Penance by Kanae Minato is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless.Ī lot of crime fiction focuses on the crime itself. Four women, haunted by a childhood trauma.
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