Archive for March 25th, 2009

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata was born in 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, and is of Japanese-American heritage. Her grandparents married in Japan and then emigrated here, and her mother was born in southern California. Although Ms. Kadohata was born in the North, she spent a good deal of her childhood in Southern states, during an interesting time, racially [...]

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