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Butterfly's Child: A Novel

โœ Scribed by Angela Davis-Gardner


Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
219 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0679604588

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โœฆ Synopsis


When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benjis true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geishaand instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. When the truth surfaces, it will splinter this familys fragile dynamic and send Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco, then across the ocean to Nagasaki, where he will uncover the truth about his mothers tragic death.

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