Many. Those that stand out are those I got to listen to speak for a long time or share a meal or long conversation : Amy Lee-Tai , Jason Reynolds, Jazz Jennings, Yusef Salaam, Lindy West(had us in hysterics) I would love to meet Judy Blume ♥️.
Many. Those that stand out are those I got to listen to speak for a long time or share a meal or long conversation : Amy Lee-Tai , Jason Reynolds, Jazz Jennings, Yusef Salaam, Lindy West(had us in hysterics) I would love to meet Judy Blume ♥️.
Yes it‘s cliche to say that truth is stranger than fiction & yet…Truth is also more horrifying, heartbreaking, frustrating, & enraging…all of which is encapsulated in this outstanding YA historical fiction about the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. I don‘t yet have all the words I need to write a well reasoned review because every time I think about what happened in the book/real life it makes me immeasurably sad. Excellent.
I read this book for my Book Club. It was a mystery within a historical fiction story. It was about a Japanese family that had lived in an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. When they were released they were sent to Chicago to start their new life. The older daughter went first to get everything ready. When the others arrived they found out she had died. The younger daughter went on a mission to find out what happened to her.
This book captures the pain and history of when the American born Chinese were send to concentration camps at the beginning of WWll. It was a heartbreaking story about the feeling of loosing what they once had, and wondering if they will ever get it back.
Sigh, a terrible story, a wonderful love. Full of hope and it made me cry. To be fair I was already crying from the previous book so it wasn‘t hard….