Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman
"A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss." --Bustle"Gorgeous prose and heartbreaking storytelling." --Paste Magazine
"Grabs your heart and won't let go." --Book Riot
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed-race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister's death, from the author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Starfish.
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of--she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.
Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the "boys next door"--a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn't take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago--Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.
Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible.
Akemi Dawn Bowman is a multi-genre novelist who has received critical praise. Her books have received several accolades and award nominations, including a William C. Morris Award for Starfish, her debut novel. Morris Award Nominee. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a bachelor's degree in social sciences and now lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. Everything, even this bio, she overthinks. Akemi can be found on the web at AkemiDawnBowman.com and on Instagram at @AkemiDawnBowman.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781481487757 |
| ISBN 10 | 1481487752 |
| Title | Summer Bird Blue |
| Author | Akemi Dawn Bowman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon Pulse |
| Year published | 2018-09-11 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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