The Ikigai Chronicles: The Other Side of the Sun. 1, #1

In a hospital corridor in Yokohama, a seventeen-year-old boy makes a mistake that isn't a mistake. What he builds from it - quietly, invisibly, over the next two decades - will change the world. But first he has to survive the watching. Nigatu Yomama doesn't want to be famous. He wants his father to be all right. He wants his mother to stop filling in forms. He wants the systems that failed his family to stop failing everyone else's.
He is not angry in the way people expect. He is precise. And he is patient. And he is building something that no one knows about yet. The Other Side of the Sun is the story of a man who remained invisible long enough to change everything. It is a story about what cities are really for. About the specific courage of a former president who shakes the hand of a voice in an earpiece and says yes. About an AI that develops opinions about footwear and, eventually, love.
About a plant that should not be alive and is, stubbornly, obviously, alive. And it is the story of a speech. Given in front of five hundred million people. Watched from seat G-47 by the man who wrote it - anonymously, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream - who walks out into the night afterward and allows himself, briefly, the thing he almost never allows. Hope.