Sumino, Yoru

"A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate--only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life"--OCLC.

"An unhappy girl who engages in self-harm, a high schooler ostracized by her classmates, and an old woman looking to live out her twilight years in peace--these three different people have something common. That's what grade schooler Nanoka Koyanagi is trying to find out. Assigned by her teacher to define what 'happiness' means to her, Nanoka tries to find her place in the world by exploring her relationships with these three strangers, and through them, comes to know herself"--Anime News Network website.

A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate, only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.