{"id":47220,"date":"2020-08-25T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47220"},"modified":"2020-08-25T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T01:54:46","slug":"a-world-between-emily-hashimoto-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-world-between-emily-hashimoto-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Between by Emily Hashimoto [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47222\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/World-Between-Emily-Hashmoto-BookDragon-541x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/World-Between-Emily-Hashmoto-BookDragon-541x800.jpg 541w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/08\/World-Between-Emily-Hashmoto-BookDragon.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/strong>Eleanor and Leena meet in 2004 in a Boston college-dorm elevator. Eleanor is a hapa Californian \u2013 her mother is white, her father Japanese American. Leena\u2019s traditionally immigrant Indian American family is a few towns over in Lowell. That fall semester is spent intensely falling, if not in love, then in intense lust. By semester\u2019s end, however, the relationship ends.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2010, when Leena flies from New York, where she\u2019s in grad school, to meet her fianc\u00e9-to-be, who lives in San Francisco. Paths cross again when she and Eleanor meet on the street, and, this time, friendship ensues, leading to living together as roommates back in New York City, until they\u2019re not.\u00a0Seven years later, a wedding enables another possibility for reunion.<\/p>\n<p>The unsettled pair\u2019s on-again, off-again romance is never quite right, not least of which because Leena can\u2019t admit to her family, or even to herself, who she really is. Alas, over the story line\u2019s 13 years and more than 400 pages to wade through, even the most devoted readers are likely to face tedium in order to arrive at book\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/A-World-Between-Emily-Hashimoto\/pid=9736457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor and Leena meet in 2004 in a Boston college-dorm elevator. Eleanor is a hapa Californian \u2013 her mother is white, her father Japanese American. Leena\u2019s traditionally immigrant Indian American family is a few towns over in Lowell. 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