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Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high school—again. Stephanie, the picture book author who took Ginny into her Oregon home after she was kicked out of school in Hawaii, isn’t upset; she only wants to know why. But Ginny has always been in-between. She can't bring herself to open up to anyone about her past, or about what prompted her to flee her native Japan. Then, Ginny finds a mysterious scrawl among Stephanie's scraps of paper and storybook drawings that changes everything: The sky is about to fall. Where do you go?
Ginny sets off on the road in search of an answer, with only her journal as a confidante. In witty and brutally honest vignettes, and interspersed with old letters from her expatriated family in North Korea, Ginny recounts her adolescence growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior. Inspired by her own childhood, author Chesil creates a portrait of a girl who has been fighting alone against barriers of prejudice, nationality, and injustice all her life—all while searching for a place to belong.
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high school—again. Stephanie, the picture book author who took Ginny into her Oregon home after she was kicked out of school in Hawaii, isn’t upset; she only wants to know why. But Ginny has always been in-between. She can't bring herself to open up to anyone about her past, or about what prompted her to flee her native Japan. Then, Ginny finds a mysterious scrawl among Stephanie's scraps of paper and storybook drawings that changes everything: The sky is about to fall. Where do you go?
Ginny sets off on the road in search of an answer, with only her journal as a confidante. In witty and brutally honest vignettes, and interspersed with old letters from her expatriated family in North Korea, Ginny recounts her adolescence growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior. Inspired by her own childhood, author Chesil creates a portrait of a girl who has been fighting alone against barriers of prejudice, nationality, and injustice all her life—all while searching for a place to belong.
Takami Nieda has translated more than ten works from Japanese into English and has received numerous grants in support of her translations, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund for the translation of Kazuki Kaneshiro’s Go. She teaches writing and translation at Seattle Central College in Washington State.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Kinder & Jugend |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781641292290 |
| ISBN-10: | 1641292296 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: |
Chesil
Nieda, Takami |
| Hersteller: | Soho Press |
| Maße: | 215 x 141 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chesil (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.04.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,32 kg |
Takami Nieda has translated more than ten works from Japanese into English and has received numerous grants in support of her translations, including the PEN/Heim Translation Fund for the translation of Kazuki Kaneshiro’s Go. She teaches writing and translation at Seattle Central College in Washington State.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Kinder & Jugend |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781641292290 |
| ISBN-10: | 1641292296 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: |
Chesil
Nieda, Takami |
| Hersteller: | Soho Press |
| Maße: | 215 x 141 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Chesil (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 05.04.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,32 kg |
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