Thursday\, June 9\, 2022: \;Fifty W ords for Rain by Asha Lemmie
\n
Pub lication Date: \;2020
\nAbstract: \;
Kyoto\, Japan\, 19
48. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her\,
or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And
she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to ligh
ten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and
her African American GI lover\, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grand
parents take her in only to conceal her\, fearful of a stain on the royal
pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. When chanc
e brings her legitimate older half-brother\, Akira\, to the estate that is
his inheritance and destiny\, the siblings form an unlikely but powerful
bond-- one their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevo
cably change the lives they were always meant to lead. A sweeping\, heartr
ending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance--and
the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japa
n. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: \;viii\, 45
2 pages \; 24 cm
General Note: \;Good Morning America book club -
- jacket.
Genre: \;Bildungsromans. - \;Novels.
Pub lication Date: \;2021
\nAbstract: \;
"From her place in
the store that sells artificial friends\, Klara--an artificial friend wit
h outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of t
hose who come in to browse\, and of those who pass in the street outside.
She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her\, but when the possibi
lity emerges that her circumstances may change forever\, Klara she is warn
ed not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale
\, Klara and the Sun\, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapi
dly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to
explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"-- Provided by
publisher.
Physical Description: \;303 pages \; 25 cm
Ge
nre: \;Science fiction - \;Romance fiction.
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