Let me copy from the website an overview of the book:
A shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman's experience of growing up in Japan's yakuza society.Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lives her early years in luxury. But labeled "the yakuza kid," she is the victim of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates at school, and of her father's violent rages at home. The family falls into debt, and Tendo falls in with the wrong crowd. By the age of fifteen she is a gang member, by the age of eighteen a drug addict, and her young adulthood is marked by a series of abusive and violent relationships with men.After the death of her parents and her own attempt at suicide, Tendo turns her life around. A pivotal moment is the decision to get tattooed: an act of empowerment that helps her take control of her life.This is the universally appealing story of a young woman's successful struggle to escape from a life of ostracism and abuse, and a rare glimpse into Japan's closed yakuza worldfrom an insider's viewpoint.
Somehow I think this book makes me kinda emotional as I was reading it. It's like at such a very young age (pri sch age), she already faced difficulties/challenges which most of us can't imagine. She was hooked on drugs, hang out with the wrong crowd, had sex with countless men, be it "willingly" or "forced". Then being abused physically by men, meaning kana beaten up umpteen times, until gonna die tt kind. But of cuz, the part which I was most touched, was when she felt very sorry towards her parents, for all her wrong doings and rebellious acts. However, before she could have a chance to repent to repay back her parents, her parents didn't live long and passed away. Haiz, I really felt sorry for Shoko San. In short, I think her life was one which normal ppl like me and you cannot imagine, and you will go "wow" or "omg!" as u read the book. Really, it's totally amazing that being traumatised so much throughout her growing stage life, she was able to repent in the end and forget her unhappy past. I guess not many ppl will be able to take it arz.
And from the book, I also learnt one thing. Okay, not that I learn from the book, cuz I also got thought of it b4. Just tt Yakuza Moon so-called "reassures" my thinking. When you are young, you are so naive and gullible, thinking how "perfect" this world is, living in a carefree life. But as u grow up, enter the society, interact with all sorts of weird ppl u can ever imagine, then u will start to realise what a broken down world we r in. Everything around us is just illusions and pack of lies most of the time. Those so-called "moral values" that we learn in pri sch/sec sch CME lessons are just bull-shit. Integrity? Dignity? They are just bull-shit lar. Just how many ppl around us can give u tt image "Wow..this person got integrity sia" or smth like tt. It's like very RARE lorz. Instead I think u bump into scums or jerks more often than not. However, Yakuza Moon proves that family kinship is really impt. Right at the end of the day, although after going thru so much quarrels/fights, the ones that r gonna stay by u is not ur "Hi-bye friend" but ur very own family members. No matter how screwed or farked-up r u, ur family will still be the one that stays by ur side.
Bleahz, I talk majiam I like giving some CME lesson. Owellz, I also don't know why I'm saying all these. Maybe cuz I find that book so fantastic that it's really really worth the money to buy and read it.
And I think I find it very very hard trying to memorise the possible pairs of transitive verbs and intransitive verbs. Piangz. Just hope that I won't take AGES to memorise arz...
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