While I Was AwayNamed one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best Books of the Year! The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her familys roots. When twelve year old Wakas parents suspect she cant understand the basic Japanese they speak to her, they make a drastic decision to send

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