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Author Lemmie, Asha, author.

Title Fifty words for rain : a novel / Asha Lemmie.

Publication Info. [New York] : Dutton, [2021]
b2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Lemmie    ---  Available
Description viii, 455 pages ; 22 cm.
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt.
Note "Previously published as a Dutton hardcover in September 2020" -- title page verso.
"The Good Morning America Book Club ; a GMA Book Club pick!" -- cover.
Includes reading group guide ([453]-455).
Contents Prelude -- Part I. Water song ; The boy with the violin ; Hikari (light) ; "Ave Maria" ; Delphinium ; Ame (rain) -- Part II. Exile ; Tree song ; Impasse ; Sonata ; Fear no evil ; The only thing immortal -- Part III. Traitor's requiem ; Night song ; Aurora -- Part IV. Skin ; But nowhere is home ; Chrysanthemum.
Summary The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Noriko "Nori" Kamiza 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. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond. 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.
Subject Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Japan -- Fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) (OCoLC)fst00814463.
Brothers and sisters. (OCoLC)fst00839671.
Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651.
Illegitimate children. (OCoLC)fst00967203.
Japanese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00981441.
Racially mixed children. (OCoLC)fst01086590.
Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082.
Japan -- Kyoto. (OCoLC)fst01207923.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787.
Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Added Title 50 words for rain.
ISBN 9781524746384 (pbk.)
152474638X (pbk.)

 
    
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