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Fifty words for rain : a novel /

Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lemmie, Asha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dutton, [2020]
Subjects:
Racially mixed children > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Japanese Americans > Fiction.
Illegitimate children > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > Japan > Fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) > Fiction.
FICTION / Asian American.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / Literary.

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