The Floating World Author: Cynthia Kadohata
	Book Information Publisher: Viking Adult Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780670826803 - ISBN-10: 0670826804 Publication Date: 7/12/1989 Pages: 208

"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....