Jan Morrill: Shadow of the White Chrysanthemum, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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In 1957 Berkeley, Nobu Kimura runs a nursery with his older brother, Taro---until a hidden letter exposes a family secret and reopens old wounds left by the war. As Nobu wrestles with a growing sense of betrayal, Taro, still haunted by the family's wartime trauma in an internment camp in Arkansas, confronts his own deepest fears when he learns he is about to become a father.

In Little Rock, their sister, Sachiko Kimura Baker, and her best friend, Jubie, watch nine Black students attempt to enter the newly desegregated Central High School. The past collides with the present when Terrence Harris---a man who once tried to kill Sachiko's father---unexpectedly saves Sachiko and her daughter, forcing the family to reckon with old hatreds, buried truths, and the possibility of forgiveness.

In the midst of the family's turmoil, their mother's return from Japan brings revelations about the misunderstandings that have kept her away since the war's end. Yet even as some of the family begins to heal, Nobu retreats further into a dangerous obsession with honor, shame, and revenge---a spiral that could shatter the family for good.

Set in the aftermath of Japanese American internment and against the rising heat of the civil rights movement, Shadow of the White Chrysanthemum continues the Kimura family saga that began with Jan Morrill's Red Kimono and explores the bonds that hold a family together---and the secrets that threaten to break them apart.