Mariko Nagai
Author of Dust of Eden
Works by Mariko Nagai
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Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (2012) — Contributor — 36 copies
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- female
- Nationality
- Japan (birth)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Places of residence
- Tokyo, Japan
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San Francisco, California, USA
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- New York University (MA|Creative Writing)
Boston University (BA) - Occupations
- poet
writer
university professor - Organizations
- Temple University, Japan Campus
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- Rating
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
- 18
Trigger warnings: Displacement, refugee experiences, military violence and war themes, death of an aunt, death of parents
Sounds like a very sad book but I could enjoy this one.
Update: 8/10, this was a new arrival at one of the two libraries I go to at the time I read this and I am familiar with verse novels so I went in with high expectations and you won't believe this but guess what, I was blown away by the sheer brilliance of this! This story was set during the last months of WWII and the year after that but it still resonates. I've read several refugee stories such as Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Refugee by Alan Gratz and so many others, some were good and some were not. This book falls in the former category and I'm glad it did. The writing style was minimal but amazing and the main character was so well written I could feel bad for her as she lost almost everything like her parents, her home, and her aunt but still, she has the resilience, hope, and perseverance to keep on going. Recommended if you like verse novels or a book about immigration. The only other books that are similar to this are Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại, I'll surely look for that book in the future and I enjoyed the other one.… (more)