![]() ![]() Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity.īut when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond-a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead.īecause now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it-a battle that just might cost her everything. ![]() Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. She will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. ![]() ![]() She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza’s first lesson. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free. From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in post-World War II Japan. ![]()
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