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Above the East China Sea by Bird, Sarah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Above the East China Sea about?
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. *Above the East China Sea *tells the entwined stories of two teenaged girls, an American and an Okinawan, whose lives are connected across seventy years by the shared experience of profound loss, the enduring strength of an ancient culture, and the redeeming power of family love.Luz James, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her strictly-by-the-rules sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base in Okianawa. Luz’s older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has just been killed in the Afghan war. Unmoored by her sister’s death and a lifetime of constant moving from base to base, Luz turns for the comfort her service-hardened mother cannot offer to the “Smokinawans,” the “waste cases,” who gather to get high every night in a deserted cove. When even pills, one-hitters, Cuervo Gold, and a growing crush on Jake Furusato aren’t enough to soften the unbearable edge, the desolate girl contemplates taking her own life.In 1945, Tamiko Kokuba, along with two hundred of her classmates, is plucked out of her elite girls’ high school and trained to work in the Imperial Army’s horrific c
Who reads Above the East China Sea?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Bird, Sarah
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385350129
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.03 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13