![]() ![]() When Chapter 1 opens, Nori is ten and has pretty much been held captive in her grandparents' attic for the past two years. ![]() Let's give Nori's mother a bit of time to meet the father, start a relationship, give birth, and then return the baby to her parents' estate-realistically Nori would be a toddler. There would have been absolutely no way an American GI would have been in Japan in the late 1930s unless we are talking about an alternate universe. ![]() Well, the Occupation started after the war ended in 1945. The main character, Nori, with a Japanese mother and an African American GI father is supposedly born in 1940 and puts her at age 8 when the story starts. I can't imagine that the author didn't know. ![]() The first error is such a glaring one that I can't imagine how it got past the editorial team. As far as I'm concerned, fiction writers have the right to write about whatever they want.īut there are glaring errors that interfere with the the suspension of belief you need to fall in love with a novel. My feelings are not about whether or not someone has the "right" to tackle this subject. Diane Nagatomo I am just 10% into the book and I'm considering abandoning it because of the huge mistakes that I have noted so far, which also makes me question the …more I am just 10% into the book and I'm considering abandoning it because of the huge mistakes that I have noted so far, which also makes me question the author's "qualifications" and her "research". ![]()
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