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I feel like the author is portraying more traditional Japanese as less than Americanized Japanese, and that’s a really shitty thing to do in a book about Japanese internment during WWII.

A lot of exposition and narration. I’d like to read her second version as I’m sure it’s much improved.

I think it’s interesting that authors at this time often included things written in French or Latin without translation. They expected that readers would know other languages.

The useless, condescending bitch “Beth” reminds me so much of our own experiences with an awful therapist who refused to hold Jeremiah accountable. Everything he did was our (MY) fault and he held no responsibility for his choices.

Based on my own experience with Reactive Attachment Disorder, the author is very clearly glossing over the down and dirty details. I get the slow build that she’s going for though. It’s like she’s hitting the highlights of key behavioral moments that lead up to the realization that RAD is making the kid batshit crazy but no one else will believe it.

The back-tracking of character development is what bothers me most about this book. The author wants to undo some of his plot resolutions so he has to change the characters to suit this. Michael seemed like a decent guy in the first book and now he’s suddenly locking kids in closets for four hours and Astrid’s response is essentially tsk tsk. Give me a break.