Evergreen

Japantown Mysteries, Book 2

De: Naomi Hirahara

Narrado por: Allison Hiroto

A Japanese American nurse's aide navigates the dangers of post-WWII and post-Manzanar life as she attempts to find justice for a broken family in this follow-up to the Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning Clark and Division.

It’s been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California—but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles.

Aki is working as a nurse’s aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband’s best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?

Only a few days later, Little Tokyo is rocked by a murder at the low-income hotel where the Watanabes have been staying. When the cops start sniffing around Aki’s home, she begins to worry that the violence tearing through her community might threaten her family. What secrets have the Watanabes been hiding, and can Aki protect her husband from getting tangled up in a murder investigation?

©2023 Naomi Hirahara (P)2023 Recorded Books

So enjoyable and enlightening

This is an apt follow up to Clark and Division. So calmly explication and profound. This story is heartfelt and serious. I was so sad to finish it!

Aki feels modern in a post-WWII LA

Aki, the protagonist and POV for this book feels modern in a post-WWII Los Angeles. It makes her feel a bit out of place in this well written story of displaced Japanese after WWII returning from Chicago (of Clark and Division) and trying to resettle in their new/old home. I recommend the book, but make sure to read/listen to the first before this one.

Engaging story and excellent narration!

I’m really enjoying this book series! I especially love the narration; it’s clear and concise without being too demonstrative or theatrical.

Nothing

Disliked the childish manor of the book. This was very simply written. The main character was not believable.