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1968, 2007, 2016: A mother is reunited with her son after years of separation.
Harmless Like You
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When Jay’s father dies, Jay decides that this is the moment he will go in search of the woman who abandoned him – his mother. It doesn’t take him long since she is now a well known artist and so the two finally meet. But important questions remain such as why she left in the first place and what kind of relationship they are both going to have now that Jay has found her. They are both lost, outsiders of a kind and both searching for meaning with others but most importantly with each other.
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Japan – America
Relationships are an important theme here as Yuki knows all too well. She is of Japanese heritage, and moved to America in order to avoid living in Japan with her parents. She is befriended by Odile, someone who says she can stay with them so as not to go to Japan. But some relationships you form and believe in should not be pursued or believed in – at any cost.
Is the past about to condemn the future?
Yuki’s New York
“They had been in New York two thirds of Yuki’s life – her Japan was only the smell of boxes of tea Grandmother posted each New Year”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Harmless Like You
Author/Guide: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Destination: New York, Berlin and Connecticut Departure Time: 1968, 2007, 2016
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