{"id":1729,"date":"2009-04-06T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:59:19","slug":"shine-coconut-moon-by-neesha-meminger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/shine-coconut-moon-by-neesha-meminger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/Shine-Coconut-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-29777\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/Shine-Coconut-Moon.jpg\" alt=\"Shine, Coconut Moon\" width=\"940\" height=\"1421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/Shine-Coconut-Moon.jpg 1648w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/Shine-Coconut-Moon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/04\/Shine-Coconut-Moon-800x1209.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>Four days after 9\/11, a man wearing a turban shows up on Samar\u2019s doorstep \u2013 and turns out to be her uncle. After years of estrangement, he\u2019s determined to reunite the fractured family \u2013 and in the process teach Sam about her Sikh American heritage. Her comfortable life \u00e0 deux with her divorced mother disappears, especially in the wake of 9\/11 when just looking like the enemy is all the justification some people need for so-called patriotic retaliation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/tbr-2009-05-06-apa-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days after 9\/11, a man wearing a turban shows up on Samar\u2019s doorstep \u2013 and turns out to be her uncle. 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