This book Follows Cj a seventeen year old Japanese- American woman, who through life always feels like she is a let down and doesn’t live up to her mother’s ambitions for her. everything CJ applies for she feels like she doesn’t belong or doesn’t like the job. Until now where she is currently the apprentice to her auntie with helping her with the family run flower shop which has been passed on down through the family tree. This is where Cj feels best when she is helping out and becoming a florist with her Auntie Hannah who loves the flower shop so much.

so one day when her mother says she is going to sell the flower shop because it isn’t doing very well like it used to but not only that, Cj’s mother is selling it too a family who took everything from Cj’s grandparents in World War II in a time when Japanese-Americans were being took into camps. When Cj hears of this she isn’t going to back down without a fight to keep the flower shop still in their family and continue the business. It’s also he first Time where Cj has founds something she wants to fight for, not just for herself but for also her auntie and the family legacy.

I loved so much of this book and one interesting part of this book was learning so much about the Japanese history and so many being stripped of everything and having to go through so many tragic times throughout WWII and after from being in camps to Japanese culture not being accepted in America. still to this day we still see Racial slurs being spoken and in this book we definitely saw that even though its getting better we do still have people who are very disrespectful to Japanese/all asian countries in general.

overall this book was such a interesting and beautiful written story of if u actually believe In something u go out and try your hardest to succeed in either trying to keeping something open or either your dreams and just chasing them and never give up.

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