December 13, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. – Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
The daughter of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African-American GI lover, Nori does not question her mother’s abandonment, or her grandmother’s harsh treatment of her. Forced to live in an attic and endure chemical baths to lighten her skin, Nori only finds a sense of acceptance through a chance encounter with her half brother who is brought to live on the same grand estate, following his father’s death – an estate which is his inheritance and his destiny. The two half siblings form a a powerful bond, a bond that her formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were meant to lead. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength and what it means to be free.
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