![]() ![]() Her mother's pregnancy has been tricky, putting everyone on edge, but Ema's heart is singing-finally, there will be someone else who will understand what it's like to belong and not belong at the same time.īut Ema's good spirits are muffled by her grandmother who is cold, tightfisted, and quick to reprimand her for the slightest infraction. ![]() She's spent summers in California for as long as she can remember, but this year she and her mother are staying with her grandparents in Japan as they await the arrival of Ema's baby sibling. In this beautiful and haunting debut novel in verse, called "a tender piece on connectedness" in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, a Japanese-American girl struggles with the loneliness of being caught between two worlds when the tragedy of 9/11 strikes an ocean away.Įleven-year-old Ema has always been of two worlds-her father's Japanese heritage and her mother's life in America. ![]()
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