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Lemmie, Asha.
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
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Lemmie, Asha.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
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Fifty
words
for
rain
: a
novel
/ Asha Lemmie.
by
Lemmie, Asha.
Dutton, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION LEM
Subjects
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781524746360 (hc.)
Alternate title:
50
words
for
rain
Description:
452 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent... Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final
words
. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic's walls. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond-a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it-a battle that just might cost her everything."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Black fiction.
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novel
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2
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Adult Black Fiction
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION LEM
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Adult Black Fiction
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