"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse.
About author(s): Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning book Kira-Kira , the National Book Award winner The Thing About Luck , the Jane Addams Peace Award and PEN America Award winner Weedflower , and several critically acclaimed adult novels, including The Floating World ..
There is an intimate, understated, even gentle quality to Kadohata\'s writing--this is not an apocalyptic dystopia--that makes it difficult to shrug off the version of the future embodied in her book.
The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Cynthia Kadohata explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, and gas, not to mention education, cannot be taken for granted. . . . "An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse
