![]() ![]() But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond-a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic’s walls. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. ![]() The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. ![]() She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. “If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. Synopsisįrom debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman’s quest for acceptance in post–World War II Japan. I loved this book so much and I am glad I finally read it. Today I’m sharing my review of Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie. ![]()
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