Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed (Novel)

Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed (Light Novel)

From the award-winning author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and I Had That Same Dream Again comes a brand-new novel: a tender coming-of-age story about the tangled lives of teenage girls.

Seventeen-year-old Akane has everything she could ever want: friends, a boyfriend, and an all-round perfect life. No one knows that her every move is a calculated performance, dictated by a compulsive need to be liked. Her flawless act is disrupted when she meets a man named Ai, who looks and sounds exactly like the protagonist of Akane’s favorite novel. Can this be a coincidence? And if not, what does it mean?

From Yoru Sumino, bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, comes this ensemble drama of fragile hearts and intersecting fates.

Biographical Notes:

Yoru Sumino is an acclaimed Japanese author best known for titles such as the bestselling I Want to Eat Your Pancreas; the Eisner-Award-nominated I Had That Same Dream Again; At Night, I Become a Monster; I Have a Secret; I am Blue, in Pain, and Fragile; I Will Forget This Feeling Someday; and Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed.

Title Notes:

• LIGHT NOVEL: Color inserts and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations complement 250-350 pages of prose. Note: This particular novel does not have illustrations.
• POPULAR CREATOR: Yoru Sumino’s entire back catalog in English is a genre unto itself at this point, incuding the bestselling I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and the Eisner-nominated I Had That Same Dream Again
• POPULAR GENRES: high school setting, character-focused and emotion-driven story, drama, coming-of-age
• SERIES INFO: This is a completed novel that will be published in one book.
• AGE RANGE: This Adult title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+).