Barn cat
By: Kyoko Mori
Series: Gemma open door; Open door series (GemmaMedia)
Publisher: GemmaMedia
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9781936846405
Subjects: Japanese American women; Families; Dairy farms; Fiction
Description: A young girl leaves Tokyo with her mother in 1979, carrying her pink suitcase to a new home, a new father and sister, on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Thirty-three years later, her mother's belongings are found packed into boxes, her furniture draped in white sheets. Without so much as a note, she has left the two sisters connected by history, by some idea of family, to look for her. What happens when people lose their way home? Like a little barn cat, they grab onto a second family. . . and start again.