Paper Wishes, Lois Sepahban
Paper Wishes, Lois Sepahban
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Paper Wishes

Author: Lois Sepahban

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 3 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/12/2019


Synopsis

A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II—and the dog she has to leave behind.

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family.

About Lois Sepahban

Lois Sepahban lives in Herrodsburg, Kentucky, where she writes children's nonfiction books for the school library market. Paper Wishes is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bridget on February 25, 2016

"Strong words. Brave words." Gently, insistently, Sepahban's spare, lyrical prose draws you in deep. This story of a Japanese-American family herded off to an internment camp during WWII, and their struggle with loss, their strength and their survival, is centered upon the character of the youngest f......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on September 17, 2015

Wow! What an incredible read! I knew very little about this period in American history, but this story showed me the fascinating and often painful truth of WWII's Japanese internment camps. Manami is a girl whose family is relocated to one of these camps because they are Japanese. She is in truth Ame......more

Goodreads review by Dana on January 07, 2016

This book is simply beautiful, poetically written and it reaches for your heart and touches your soul. The author has a simple story telling style that draws you in. Her prose are beautifully done and have a strong emotional impact. To see the Japanese encampments through a child's eyes brings anoth......more

Goodreads review by Monica on January 21, 2016

This is a beautiful book. With all the praise already circulating for PAPER WISHES, I had high expectations. My expectations were exceeded. Manami's story is painful, but it is impeccably executed. The author masterfully employs imagery, metaphor, and word manipulation and repetition to great effect......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on January 04, 2016

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review. This book is a real treasure. It illuminates one of the worst chapters of our modern American history--one that has sadly often gone overlooked. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was a horror, but it's one that Lois Sepahban p......more