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Himawari House
by Harmony Becker
Post-high school and not quite ready for college and career, three new adult girls (one from Singapore, one from Korea, and one Japanese-born but raised in America) move in together in Japan. They study the language, but over the course of a year they learn more about themselves and their own identities. The author celebrates the accents and nuances of different Asian cultures, while portraying the difficulties of learning a language, assimilating to life in a new country, and growing up. It's a realistic and hopeful, deeply heartfelt yet humorous look at the course of self-discovery.