The Floating World (Magill Book Reviews)

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This retrospective, pointillistic chronicle begins when the narrator and protagonist Olivia Osaka is about twelve years old, living in northern California with her mother, her stepfather Charlie, her four brothers, and her grandmother Obasan. Because jobs for Charlie are scarce, the story no sooner begins than the family is moving to Arkansas, where Charlie will get a job as a chicken sexer. Moving from place to place is habitual for the Osakas, and by the time she is twelve Olivia has lived in--besides California--Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and never in one place in any of these...

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