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The story of a onegirl revolution that broke literary ground in Japannow in English translation for the first timeSeventeenyearold Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high schoolagain Stephanie the picture book author who took Ginny into her Oregon home after she was kicked out of school in Hawaii isnt upset she only wants to know why But Ginny has always been inbetween She cant bring herself to open up toanyone about her past or about what prompted her to flee her native Japan Then Ginny finds a mysterious scrawl among Stephanies scraps of paper and storybook drawings that changes everything The sky is about to fall Where do you goGinny sets off on the road in search of an answer with only her journal as a confidante In witty and brutally honest vignettes and interspersed with old letters from her expatriated family in North Korea Ginny recounts her adolescence growing up Zainichi an ethnic Korean born in Japan and the incident that forced her to leave years prior Inspired by her own childhood author Chesil creates a portrait of a girl who has been fighting alone against barriers of prejudice nationality and injustice all her lifeand one searching for a place to belong