Floating World Author: Cynthia Kadohata
	Book Information Publisher: Ballantine Books Book Type: Paperback Rating: 3 ISBN-13: 9780345367563 - ISBN-10: 0345367561 Publication Date: 3/13/1991

"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 memory, hanging in the air among them as the part of a family history that reaches further back than they care to recall, but can't help remembering....