Pull me under by kelly luce5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() For over a decade, the “black organ” inside her has been tamed, and she seems to have put her past behind her. After years in a mental asylum, she manages to come to Boulder, Colorado and reinvent herself. This moment of kireru-her snap-defines her in the eyes of others. She’s also “the girl who snapped” when she was twelve and fatally stabbed a school bully who was tormenting her. She grew up in Japan as a hāfu-her mother was American. She’s actually Chizuru Akitani, daughter of Japan’s Living National Treasure, the violinist Hiro Akitani. And we might have something to worry about. But when she receives a letter from Japan, her life starts to come apart. Rio is a nurse, jogger, wife, and mother of a twelve-year-old. Thankfully, it’s only Rio Silvestri, the high-functioning narrator of Kelly Luce’s novel Pull Me Under (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). “No one is about to do anything crazy, except me.” We might want to worry if it’s a murderer who says this. ![]()
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