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Sarah Fields
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie is a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller. Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale, commended the book writing how it is a "lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together."
In the year 1948, in Kyoto, Japan, an eight-year-old Noriko "Nori"...
In the year 1948, in Kyoto, Japan, an eight-year-old Noriko "Nori"...
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"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. 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...