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While I Was Away (Paperback)
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While I Was Away (Paperback)
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List price R235
Loot Price R210
Discovery Miles 2 100
You Save R25 (11%)
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Named one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best
Books of the Year! The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's
Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut
author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s
Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family's
roots. When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't
understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a
drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months
with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends
and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from
her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the
globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan,
Waka struggles with reading and writing in kanji, doesn't quite
mesh with her complicated and distant Obaasama, and gets made fun
of by the students in her Japanese public-school classes. Even
though this is the country her parents came from, Waka has never
felt more like an outsider. If she's always been the "smart
Japanese girl" in America but is now the "dumb foreigner" in Japan,
where is home...and who will Waka be when she finds it?
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