A moving Novel of the vital importance of family and the bitter consequences of prejudice. Played out against the baackdrop of two critical eras of American history, this beautifully written story imparts lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation that will linger after the last page is turned.
Augie Schuler is deaperate for llove, the kind "normal "families provide. when she meets Sunny Yamagata and her family Augie knows she's found what she's been looking for in spite of cultural differences. together the two girls pursue the fanciful dreams of youth - and a sometimes humorous search for God - beneath the bright California sun.
But the bombing of Pearl Harbor changes everything. When the two are unexpectedly runited many years later, their world has become a vastly different place. Different and yet the angry tide of intolerance surges on. Now, in order to stem the tide, these once inseparable friends must learn from the past and embrace the promise of the future.