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Floating World
Floating World
Author: Cynthia Kadohata
"Maks the debut of a luminious new voice in fiction." — THE NEW YORK TIMES — Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a kind of home, a place for her parents to work out their difficulties, in towns that barely linger in ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345367563
ISBN-10: 0345367561
Publication Date: 3/13/1991
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a series of inter-related stories about growing up in a somewhat migratory Chinese familoy in the US in the mid-twentieth-century. Rather personal, an intriguing perspective on a somewhat unusual life and family.


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