Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.

「生徒会長はなぜ男子が多いの?」「女の子が黒いランドセルってダメ?」「理系に進みたいのに親がダメっていう」等々.女の子たちが日常的に抱くモヤモヤや疑問に上野先生が全力で答えます

第132回（2004年）直木三十五賞受賞作

専業主婦の小夜子は、ベンチャー企業の女社長、葵にスカウトされ、ハウスクリーニングの仕事を始めるが……。結婚する女、しない女、子供を持つ女、持たない女、それだけのことで、なぜ女どうし、わかりあえなくなるんだろう。多様化した現代を生きる女性の、友情と亀裂を描く傑作長編。