Physical Description |
viii, 452 pages ; 24 cm. |
Summary |
Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . " Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. 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. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity. 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. |
Subject |
Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
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Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Japan -- Fiction.
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Kyoto (Japan) -- Fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Alternate Title |
50 words for rain |
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