1321524
9780449704530
"...so lively and affecting that one imagines its readers will be too engaged by its heroine's situation to notice how much--and how painlessly--they are are learning about another culture. This gracefully written book involves us so immediately in the emotional and spiritual life of a 15-year-old Japanese girl that only rarely do we pause to register which aspects of Megumi Shimizu's story are specific to her country, and how much her experience has in common with the larger world of adolescence."Mori, Kyoko is the author of 'One Bird' with ISBN 9780449704530 and ISBN 044970453X.
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