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Caught between being a child and a teenager, ten-year-old multiracial Ellen must adapt to an entirely different culture and new relatives when her family moves to Japan to care for her ailing grandmother. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I had a hard time with this novel. Despite the author’s beautiful prose, the story didn’t seem headed in any particular direction. There were actually two points at which I thought the story would suddenly pick up interest, but then, just as quickly, the story veered away from precisely what caught my attention. The Japanese language dialogue included in the story was distracting because I do not understand Japanese. Unfortunately, only some of this dialogue was translated.
For me the highlight of the novel was the fun that Ellen had with her siblings. That part seemed to resonate with me the most. I never had the full sense that this family was living in Japan despite the Japanese language, the rice paddies, and the description of the house in which the family lived. I wanted to finish this novel to see in what direction it would go, but, by the time I was done, I did not find the story very fulfilling. ( )