This Time Will Be Different
Books | Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / United States / Asian American & Pacific Islander
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Misa Sugiura
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book * A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults SelectionFor 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.
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Author
Misa Sugiura
Pages
416
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2019-06-04
ISBN
0062473468 9780062473462
Ratings
Google: 1.5
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"One of my personal favorite books,makes you laugh and then think!"
J K
Jonathan Kent
"3.5/5
Love the topics explored in this one if I was in high school and read this I feel like this would’ve impacted me greatly there is a romance plot but definitely more secondary but still cute I think young adults would eat this up it’s great just didn’t partially work for me in this age in life "
"Couldn’t put this book down "
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