Amy Yamada - Bedtime Eyes

Jesse said good night as he went back to his room and closed the door behind him. Then he opened it again and stuck his head out.

“Hey,” he said with a shy grin, “are girls really that great?”

Coco stifled a laugh. He would remember what his dad had told him till he found out the truth for himself.

“You’d better believe it,” she replied with smile. “And men aren’t that bad either.”

This book is being published within the Japanese Literature Publishing Program, managed by the Japan Association for Cultural Exchange on behalf of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan.

BEDTIME EYES. Copyright © 2006 by Amy Yamada. English translation copyright © 2006 by Yumi Gunji and Marc Jardine. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

“Bedtime Eyes” (“ Beddo taimu aizu ”) copyright © 1985 by Amy Yamada, originally published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in Tokyo, Japan. “The Piano Player’s Fingers” (“ Yubi to tawamura ”) and “Jesse” (“ Jeshi no sebone” ) copyright © 1986 by Amy Yamada, originally published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in Tokyo, Japan.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yamada, Amy, 1959-

[Beddo taimu aizu. English]

Bedtime eyes / by Amy Yamada; translated by Yumi Gunji and Marc Jardine.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-312-35226-3

EAN 978-0-312-35226-4

I. Gunji, Yumi. II. Jardine, Marc.

PL865.A489B43 2006

895.6"35—dc22

2005052041

First Edition: May 2006

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