Kodansha America, Inc Number Call

From the creator of My Summer of You comes a new high school romance about the power of numbers, and how the number 8 draws two young men together--the author’s Japanese debut, now available for the first time in English!High schooler Eighto Tachibana has always hated his name, including all of the jokes and puns about the number 8 that have come along with it.It's as if the number has haunted him like a ghost ever since he was a child.One day, he meets a classmate named Tomoya Hatta, aka Hachi--the Japanese word for "8." What begins as casual greetings and small talk in the hallway soon becomes something much deeper, and Eighto realizes that it's more than just a similar nickname that draws him to Hachi.Could the number that Eighto resented for so long finally bring him something he'll love--and is that someone Hachi?