β Scribed by Bowman, Akemi Dawn
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A mixed race teen struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sisterβs tragic death in this incisive, lyrical novel
Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesnβt have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure ofβshe wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea.
Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the βboys next doorββa teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesnβt take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years agoβRumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish.
Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible.
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