Kim / Kimi Author:Hadley Irwin "Where do I fit? Half of me is Kim Andrews. Half of me is Kimi Yogushi." Where does a girl belong who looks completely different from all the friends with whom she has grown up, but who feels exactly like them inside? Even a warm and loving relationship with her mother, her stepfather and her half brother can't give sixteen-year-ol... more »d Kim/Kimi the answers. She must find out more about her Japanese-American father, who died before she was born, and his family, if there is any. Perhaps then she can resolve her inner conflict.
The answers lie buried in a shameful part of American history: the incarceration of loyal Japanese-American citizens during World War II. Kim/Kimi is the story of her search for self, for her father's family, for a heritage of which she is ignorant. Her journey takes her to California and to Tule Lake, the site of one of the Japanese-American concentration camps, and finally to a confrontation with her father's past and her own future.
This probing, thought-provoking story, by the author of the widely acclaimed Abby, My Love, offers deeply sympathetic insights into an important aspect of American life. Filled with sensitive characterizations, humor and telling incident, Kim/Kimi leads the reader into a new understaning of our contemporary world. « less