2) What is the significance of the fact that this narrative revolves around a mostly-female cast?
3) How does Kirino complicate some of the moral issues around murder? Do you think Yayoi's act is justified? Do you think Masako's act is justified?
4) Characterize each of the major characters in the novel. What role does each person play? Do they fit into any major archetypes? If so, what are those archetypes?
5) What might be the significance of the boxed lunch factory in regards to the major themes of the novel? How does it tie in to the murder?
6) How are bodies viewed in the novel: both female and male bodies?
7) What is the true horror in the novel?
8) How would you characterize Kirino's feminism? Is it a straightforward kind of feminism?
9) How does she reveal the ways in which modern Japanese society hurts men as well? How does she make male characters who would normally be viewed as unsympathetic, sympathetic?
10) What do you make of Masako's decision to run the business of chopping up bodies? Why does she do it? Do you feel her motives are understandable?
11) What is the author suggesting by the title?
9) How does she reveal the ways in which modern Japanese society hurts men as well? How does she make male characters who would normally be viewed as unsympathetic, sympathetic?
10) What do you make of Masako's decision to run the business of chopping up bodies? Why does she do it? Do you feel her motives are understandable?
11) What is the author suggesting by the title?
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