Description from Goodreads
Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.
Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...
My Thoughts on the Book
The three characters in this book, and they're all are either victims of unrequited love or incapable of being in love, being a bit like sputniks orbiting each other, but never really getting any closer for various reasons. Somehow, I really enjoyed Sumire, found her somewhat relatable, and if she was a real person, she's probably some I'd love to be friends with for some reason.
The plot though, it was okay, but nothing more than that. What's really well-written in Sputnik Sweetheart is the characters and their interactions with each other, especially the phone calls between Sumire and K. It's still well worth the read though.
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