Kira-Kira
Ratings10
Average rating3.6
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Ratings10
Average rating3.6
In her first novel for young readers Kadohata creates a lyrical story of two Japanese sisters growing up in Georgia in the early 60s. When one sister becomes terminally ill, the other must help herself and her family look to the future.
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Katie is Japanese-American and she adores her older sister, Lynn. Their parents close their Asian food market in Iowa and must move to Georgia to find work in the chicken-processing plants there. It is a hard life. The family is poor, but “...in the way Japanese people are poor, meaning (they) never borrowed money from anyone, period.” Lynn is Katie's idol and the two girls are wonderful friends. Lynn teaches Katie all she has learned in life. Then Lynn becomes weak and ill and the family is shaken to the core.
