Survival mode took its toll and I eventually had to put it aside. I tried working on the Texas novel and sent out a lifeline by paying for a critique for it. Health issues, an ageing mother-in-law, and pets made it impossible to go to the area to volunteer. We had been living with my in-laws for over twenty years, one child was in university, and the other was about to start Japanese high school. The damaged nuclear plant threatened our air, food, and water.
The earth rocked our Tokyo house for months afterwards. Waiting for the sibling she has always wanted, being with her Japanese grandfather, receiving phone calls from her American grandparents, and making a new friend make the time bearable until all is threatened when the towers go down in New York.Ĭlick on the publisher’s page for information about the book.Īt the time of the earthquake and tsunami March 11, 2011, Japan’s 9-11, I was working on a middle grade prose novel set in Texas, my home state. Things heat up even more for Ema when a bully at the neighborhood school that she has to attend in the fall makes her life miserable as well. It is always on her grandfather never misses the news. She finishes the schoolwork for the semester under her grandmother’s nose and in front of the television. Ema is miserable trying to keep peace between her grandmother and mother, to keep cool in the summer heat, and to keep up her studies.
She and her parents go across Tokyo to stay at her grandparents’ house.Įma’s grandmother takes care of them and makes sure that Ema knows the finer points of Japanese culture.
Ema is an eleven-year-old American-Japanese girl bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national with an American mother and a Japanese father.Įma has lived in Japan all her life, has attended Japanese public school, has done well and has friends that she has to leave for a few months because of her mother’s difficult pregnancy.
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