Why would Sakamoto choose to end her novel like this? It seems a little quick, rosy, and all together too nicely packaged considering all the effort she put into building inner turmoil and stigma in Asako: "Girls here, boys there. It was simple, really." Having said that, I was glad the novel ended when it did.
Other than that, some of the parts that stand out for me are the repeated imagery of stains of all sorts, a crazy and disorienting synaesthesia through smell, and the note on there being no photographs ever since the internment camp (the camp little discussed).
A bit choppy, some awkward phrasing and reaching metaphors, but unique and overall enjoyable.
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