Pearl: A Graphic Novel

In a beautifully crafted and captivating graphic novel from award-winning writer Sherri L. Smith and Eisner-nominated artist Christine Norrie,a Japanese-American girl must survive years of uncertainty and questions of loyalty in Hiroshima during World War II. Amy is a thirteen-year-old Japanese-American girl who lives in Hawaii. When her great-grandmother falls illAmy travels to visit family in Hiroshima for the first time. But this is 1941. When the Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harborit becomes impossible for Amy to return to Hawaii. Conscripted into translating English radio transmissions for the Japanese armyAmy struggles with questions of loyalty and fears about her family amidst rumors of internment camps in America — even as she makes a new best friend andover the yearsJapan starts to feel something like home. Torn between two countries at warAmy must figure out where her loyalties lie andin the face of unthinkable tragedyfind hope in the rubble of a changed world.