Random Recommendation Guest Post: Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird

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Above the East China Sea (2014) by Sarah Bird

An historical novel set in Okinawa during the last months of WWII, Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love.