LEADER 00000nim a22005175a 4500 003 MWT 005 20201104051633.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 201023s2014 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781490614403 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1490614400 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781490614403_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13537908 037 13537908|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813/.54|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Bird, Sarah. 245 10 Above the East China sea|h[Hoopla electronic resource] / |cSarah Bird. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2014. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (840 min.)) :|bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Narrated by Ali Ahn, Tandy Cronyn, Graham Halstead, and Jennifer Ikeda. 520 Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan- whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no- nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in the Afghan war. Unmoored by her death, unable to lean on her mother, Luz contemplates taking her own life. In l945, Tamiko has lost everyone-the older sister she idolized and her entire family-and finds herself trapped between the occupying Japanese and the invading Americans whom she has been taught are demons that live to rape. On an island where the spirits of the dead are part of life and the afterworld reunites you with your family, suicide offers Tamiko the promise of peace. As Luz tracks down the story of her own Okinawan grandmother, she discovers that the ancestral spirits work as readily to save her as they do to help Tamiko find a resting place. And as these two stories unfold and intertwine, we see how war and American occupation have shaped and reshaped the lives of Okinawans. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Daughters|vFiction. 650 0 Orphans|vFiction. 650 0 Literature. 651 0 Okinawa Island (Japan)|vFiction. 655 7 Humorous fiction.|2gsafd 700 1 Ahn, Ali.|4nrt 700 1 Cronyn, Tandy.|4nrt 700 1 Halstead, Graham.|4nrt 700 1 Ikeda, Jennifer.|4nrt 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13537908?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rbd_9781490614403_180.jpeg