Like a Willow Tree

By Rei Kimura

A willow tree, soft and flowy on the outside, unbreakable and strong on the inside, left to brave the lashings and extremities of wind and storm but never quite breaking.Hanako Ishigaki was just 9 years old when her father decided to uproot the family from traditional and beautiful Kyoto and migrate to Hawaii.We follow Hanako's arduous journey to Hawaii on a passenger liner and the shock of finding no one waiting for them there. By a sheer stroke of luck, if one could call it that, the Ishigaki family, used to much better times and lives, ended up in Kauia Island in a Japanese settlement called Furusato to work in a sugar plantation alongside thousands of Japanese migrants. The book describes the colorful lives of the Japanese migrant community in Hawaii in the eyes of the young Hanako and the conflict of two cultures, east and west.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633233758
• ISBN13: 9781633233751
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Booksmango
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"