Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweeping and evocative novel follows a young woman escaping her past in postwar Paris as she searches for the larger-than-life man she believes to be her father.
• Amazon's Top 10 Books of 2020
• Good Morning America Book Club Pick
• Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
• New York Times Editors Choice Pick
• Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Literati Book Club Pick
"This coming of age tale about a biracial girl in postwar Japan is an assured, confident debut by a talented new author.”
“[An] epic, twisty debut… Sometimes bleak, sometimes hopeful, Lemmie’s heartbreaking story of familial obligations packs an emotional wallop.”
“Lemmie’s sweeping historical backdrop, from the post–World War II decline of minor royalty through the expanding liberations of the 1960s, is breathtaking…“
“Novels like Asha Lemmie’s debut allow me to experience the high of the endurance athlete… I inhaled Fifty Words for Rain in one day. I had no choice.”
