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The Floating World
The 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: 9780670826803
ISBN-10: 0670826804
Publication Date: 7/12/1989
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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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