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A review by littletaiko
Pull Me Under by Kelly Luce
4.0
Having recently visited Japan this book pulled me in quicker than it may have done otherwise. Though with an opening like this book has, I probably would have been hooked fairly quickly. To be fair, this book gets at least one star from me solely because of the pickled plum onigri description. It perfectly captures what it's like to eat one of my all time favorite foods.
Anyway, I digress. The heart of this story is a young girl, half-Japanse/half-American, who kills a classmate in Japan when she's about 12. She then spends the next few years in a detention center until she becomes an adult. She leaves the country and creates a wonderful, normal life for herself in the United States. When her estranged father dies she finds that maybe her past isn't as buried as she had thought and heads back to Japan to figure out more about who she really is.
Anyway, I digress. The heart of this story is a young girl, half-Japanse/half-American, who kills a classmate in Japan when she's about 12. She then spends the next few years in a detention center until she becomes an adult. She leaves the country and creates a wonderful, normal life for herself in the United States. When her estranged father dies she finds that maybe her past isn't as buried as she had thought and heads back to Japan to figure out more about who she really is.