A Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young
Adults Selection
For fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon, critically
acclaimed author Misa Sugiura delivers a richly crafted contemporary YA
novel about family, community, and the importance of writing your own
history.
The author of the Asian Pacific American Award-winning It's Not Like
It's a Secret is back with another smartly drawn coming-of-age novel
that weaves riveting family drama, surprising humor, and delightful
romance into a story that will draw you in from the very first page.
Katsuyamas never quit--but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where
to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's
perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower
shop.
She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their
hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ
discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be
proud of.
Then her mom decides to sell the shop--to the family who swindled CJ's
grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to
internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ's
family, friends, and their entire Northern California community; and for
the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.
