{"id":44070,"date":"2018-07-24T11:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44070"},"modified":"2018-07-11T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:23:03","slug":"shadow-child-rahna-reiko-rizzuto-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/shadow-child-rahna-reiko-rizzuto-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Child by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-44060\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Shadow-Child-Rahna-Reiko-Rizzuto-527x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Shadow-Child-Rahna-Reiko-Rizzuto-527x800.jpg 527w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Shadow-Child-Rahna-Reiko-Rizzuto.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/>Dreading her twin sister Keiko&#8217;s visit from Hawai&#8217;i, Hanako deliberately delays returning to her Manhattan apartment, but when she does, she finds Kei in the shower, unconscious from a mysterious attack. While Kei lies comatose in the hospital, Hana recalls their inseparable, even interchangeable childhoods until adolescence cleaved them into good Hana and wild-child Kei. Their mother&#8217;s and stepfather&#8217;s deaths reunite them \u2013 at least in physical distance \u2013 but Hana must somehow bring Kei back from the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Interspersed with the sisters&#8217; saga is Lillie&#8217;s tragic story as a Japanese American woman imprisoned in Manzanar during World War II who is deported to Japan before war&#8217;s end, horrifically losing loved ones in Hiroshima, but ultimately survives to return home to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>How the dual narratives are linked won&#8217;t be surprising, and despite multiple red herrings, readers will probably intuit whodunit sooner rather than later. With such predictability, wading through more than 13 hours of psychological meandering risks devolving into tedium.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Christine Lakin&#8217;s narration could have been more engaging, her Japanese phrases and Hawaiian pidgin more consistent, the various characters more succinctly distinguished. That said, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto&#8217;s (<em>Hiroshima in the Morning<\/em>) already uneven text limits opportunities for transformative aural enhancement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2018-07-01-2078293.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreading her twin sister Keiko&#8217;s visit from Hawai&#8217;i, Hanako deliberately delays returning to her Manhattan apartment, but when she does, she finds Kei in the shower, unconscious from a mysterious attack. 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