In the Heart of the Valley of Love Author: Cynthia Kadohata
	Book Information Publisher: Viking Adult Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780670834150 - ISBN-10: 0670834157 Publication Date: 8/1/1992 Pages: 240

Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata's writingthis is not an apocalyptic dystopiathat makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book.