02786cam a2200541 i 4500 1262045895 TxAuBib 200211s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020001700 9781524746360 hardcover 1524746363 hardcover (OCoLC)18864 TxAuBib rda Lemmie, Asha, author. Fifty words for rain : a novel / Asha Lemmie. 50 words for rain. [New York : Dutton, [2020] viii, 452 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Prelude -- Part I. Water song ; The boy with the violin ; Hikari (light) ; ""Ave Maria"" ; Delphinium ; Ame (rain) -- Part II. Exile ; Tree song ; Impasse ; Sonata ; Fear no evil ; The only thing immortal -- Part III. Traitor's requiem ; Night song ; Aurora -- Part IV. Skin ; But nowhere is home ; Chrysanthemum. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko ""Nori"" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. When chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond - one their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. -- adapted from jacket. Racially mixed children Fiction. Racially mixed children. Family secrets Fiction. Family secrets. Japanese Americans Fiction. Japanese Americans. Illegitimate children Fiction. Illegitimate children. Aristocracy (Social class) Japan Fiction. Aristocracy (Social class.) Brothers and sisters Fiction. Brothers and sisters. FICTION / Asian American. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Literary. Illegitimacy Fiction. Aristocracy Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Fiction. Kyoto (Japan) Fiction. Japan. Japan. Kyoto. Bildungsromans. Novels.