Asha Lemmie ist eine New York Times-Bestsellerautorin. Sie schreibt historische Fiktion, die einzigartige Perspektiven zum Leben erweckt. Ihre Arbeit konzentriert sich darauf, unbeleuchtete Geschichten und Blickwinkel für Leser ans Licht zu bringen. Lemmie schätzt eine globale Perspektive, die ihren Ansatz zur Erzählung prägt.
When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic.
From debut author Asha Lemmie comes a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel set in post-World War II Japan. In Kyoto, 1948, eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza learns to accept her harsh reality: abandoned by her mother with only a few words, confined to her grandparents' attic, and subjected to painful chemical baths to lighten her skin. As the biracial daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and an African American GI, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents, fearing a stain on their royal lineage, hide her away, and she obediently endures her solitary existence, despite her natural curiosity and intellect. Everything changes when her older half-brother Akira arrives at the estate, bringing hope and an unexpected bond that defies their grandparents' wishes. This connection awakens Nori's desire for acceptance and belonging in a world that seems to have no place for her. Determined to fight for her identity and place in society, Nori embarks on a journey that could cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, this epic tale explores the ties that bind us, the strength found in connection, and the pursuit of freedom.
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin. The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond—a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it—a battle that just might cost her everything. Spanning decades and continents, Fifty Words for Rain is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.