My Almost Epic Summer
“The kids look up from their bowls of breakfast ice cream.
“Are you sure?” asks Evan. “When was the last time you saw it?”
I calculate back. I hadn’t been using the notebook since last week, when I started reading Dunces. Then on my Saturday trip to the library, my favorite librarian, Miss Kitamura, had presented me with a book called Obasan.
“I’ve been holding it especially for you, Irene, since you’re my best reader,” she said. As hairstylishly unpromising as it had looked, I accepted it, my d...ilemma being that Miss Kitamura is Japanese and Obasan is by a Japanese author, and to refuse to take it seemed a personal snub against Miss Kitamura, who had helped strategize my Golden Bookworm victory with her many excellent recommendations.
Then I ended up reading Obasan in the library all day to avoid being at home, where Mom kept calling in every five minutes to check if I’d heard from Roy.
Unfortunately, now Obasan won’t let me put it down until I find out the secret of where Naomi’s mother ran off to.MoreLess
“Are you sure?” asks Evan. “When was the last time you saw it?”
I calculate back. I hadn’t been using the notebook since last week, when I started reading Dunces. Then on my Saturday trip to the library, my favorite librarian, Miss Kitamura, had presented me with a book called Obasan.
“I’ve been holding it especially for you, Irene, since you’re my best reader,” she said. As hairstylishly unpromising as it had looked, I accepted it, my d...ilemma being that Miss Kitamura is Japanese and Obasan is by a Japanese author, and to refuse to take it seemed a personal snub against Miss Kitamura, who had helped strategize my Golden Bookworm victory with her many excellent recommendations.
Then I ended up reading Obasan in the library all day to avoid being at home, where Mom kept calling in every five minutes to check if I’d heard from Roy.
Unfortunately, now Obasan won’t let me put it down until I find out the secret of where Naomi’s mother ran off to.MoreLess
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