1001 Cranes (23 page)

About the Author

Naomi Hirahara grew up in Southern California speaking both Japanese and English. After graduating from college with a degree in international relations, she lived for a year in Japan, where she was able to spend some time with her maternal grandmother and other relatives. A mystery writer and former journalist, she won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for
Snakeskin Shamisen,
her third book in the Mas Arai adult mystery series. Her favorite words include
pneuma
and
kuru-kuru-pa
. Visit her at
www.1001cranesbook.com
or
www.naomihirahara.com
.

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ADULT FICTION

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Gasa-Gasa Girl

Snakeskin Shamisen

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2008 by Naomi Hirahara
How to Fold a Paper Crane, copyright 1994 by George Levenson. Adapted with permission from Informed Democracy /
www.informeddemocracy.com
.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hirahara, Naomi.

1001 cranes / Naomi Hirahara.—1st ed.          p. cm.

Summary: With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.

1. Japanese Americans—Juvenile fiction. [1. Japanese Americans—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Marriage—Fiction. 4. Grandparents—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: One thousand and one cranes.

PZ7.H59773Aam 2008        [Fic]—dc22         2007027655

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