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It's Not Like It's a Secret by Misa Sugiura
4.0

this book was such an intense dive in the Japanese culture that not many contemporary story portray and how race is important for (old) Japanese and how it is necessary to show good even if it's not the truth. 

i loved how Jamie was able to show Sana what life and love is really about and not what she believed to be true watching her parents grow up. 

i wanted to shake sana's mom half of the book but it made sense with her way of life and how she was raised by her parents in Japan. 

Dana constantly correcting her mom on the correct use of the English language made me laugh. 

the honest and raw discovery of Sana's true self while battling with a secret she thought she had to keep was everything i wanted it to be.