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Summer Bird Blue by Bowman, Akemi Dawn is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Summer Bird Blue about?

A mixed race teen struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister's tragic death in this incisive, lyrical novel that's perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jennifer Niven, by the author of William C. Morris Award finalist Starfish. Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn't have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of--she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the "boys next door"--A teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn't take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago--Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores bi

Who reads Summer Bird Blue?

Author

Bowman, Akemi Dawn

Publisher

Simon Pulse

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781481487764

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14