This is one of those books that demands to be discussed. I know because after my boyfriend lent it to me and I finished it, I called him immediately. I wanted to talk about two aspects of the story in particular - its tip-of-the-iceberg character development and its web of seemingly random but of course meaningful details. Me and the boyfriend who lent me the book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki follows the title character's quest to understand, in his early thirties, why his four beloved high school friends cut him off while he was in college. Their rejection of him was sudden, mysterious, and brutal, casting him into a suicidal depression. Years after the depression has ended, Tsukuru still feels scarred by the rejection. He believes in his heart that he is empty, isolated, colorless, and unable to fully connect with others. But when he meets Sara, a woman to whom he feels inexplicably drawn, he realizes that he must confront his past and his four former friends in