This book is written in poetic verse, and takes place in
Massachusetts, where a high-school sophomore, Emma, copes with the emotional
stress of her mother being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Emma grew up in Japan which she considers to be her true home, but she has to sacrifice everything for the healing process of her mother so she and her father move to Massachusetts while her mother undergoes cancer treatment. Even though she has trouble adapting to the United States culture and is forced to start a whole new life in a different country, she finds ways to cope with her new atmosphere. She volunteers at a care center and reads and writes poems with a girl named Zena, who is unable to talk and communicates with a digital keyboard. Zena also meets a guy named Samnang, at school, that she begins to like more than a friend. She starts going daily, making friendships with them. She plans to return to Japan in a few months, but as she grows closer to Samnang and Zena, she begins to like living in the United States. Her decision to go back home to Japan or stay in the United States with her YiaYia, gets extremely difficult. If you have had trouble with coping, and finding how to stay positive through emotional stress, or are someone who has lived in another country and moved to the United States, this is the book for you. The poems in this book are beautifully written!
Emma grew up in Japan which she considers to be her true home, but she has to sacrifice everything for the healing process of her mother so she and her father move to Massachusetts while her mother undergoes cancer treatment. Even though she has trouble adapting to the United States culture and is forced to start a whole new life in a different country, she finds ways to cope with her new atmosphere. She volunteers at a care center and reads and writes poems with a girl named Zena, who is unable to talk and communicates with a digital keyboard. Zena also meets a guy named Samnang, at school, that she begins to like more than a friend. She starts going daily, making friendships with them. She plans to return to Japan in a few months, but as she grows closer to Samnang and Zena, she begins to like living in the United States. Her decision to go back home to Japan or stay in the United States with her YiaYia, gets extremely difficult. If you have had trouble with coping, and finding how to stay positive through emotional stress, or are someone who has lived in another country and moved to the United States, this is the book for you. The poems in this book are beautifully written!
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