![]() ![]() ![]() But it doesn’t take long before the two develop a tenuous friendship: quiet Aya may be a social liability, but she speaks fluent English, and Fumi-a bossy firecracker-needs help. At school, she's an outcast, the hunched-over foreigner who barely speaks Japanese, and when kindly Kondo Sensei assigns her classmate Fumi to look after her, the relationship gets off to a predictably disastrous start-the last thing Fumi wants is to be weighed down by a repat who can hardly talk. ![]() Struggling to survive in an unfamiliar city still ravaged by the war, Aya's emotionally distant father works constantly, leaving Aya to navigate her new world alone. It's 1946, and after spending the war in a Canadian internment camp, 13-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father have "repatriated" to Japan under governmental duress. Through an elegant web of interconnected storylines, Kutsukake's absorbing debut brings American-occupied postwar Tokyo to life. ![]()
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