My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick

My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick - Paperback

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My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick - Paperback

My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick - Paperback

by Emma Nanami Strenner
$32.00
$32.00

Book Overview

A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home" - class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends

In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to Vietnam when her toddler daughter vanishes in the Philadelphia airport.

Seventeen years later, two best friends graduate from high school in the WASP-y town of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Kit is half Japanese, half American, and interracially adopted by white well-to-do parents. Sabrina is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant single mother who brandishes strict household rules to hide her own secrets.

During that last summer before college, Kit travels to Tokyo, determined to uncover her Japanese identity. Her dizzying weeks in Tokyo offer her a critical distance from everything she holds dear--and a taste of first love that refines her understanding of what it means to belong.

Sabrina had hoped to take a similar trip to China, but money is tight. Her disappointment quickly subsides, however, as her bold, uncompromising boss becomes a mentor, prompting Sabrina to ask questions she's avoided all her life. Meanwhile, Mimi purchases a plane ticket to Philadelphia. She finally has a lead to renew her search in the country where she and her daughter were parted.

When Mimi, Kit, and Sabrina come face to face at the end of this transformative summer, they will confront the people they truly are, dismantling their own assumptions about belonging and the importance of blood ties.
ISBN9798217082643
Author Emma Nanami Strenner
PublisherRandom House Large Print Publishing
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages512
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeLarge Print

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About Emma Nanami Strenner

Emma Nanami Strenner is British Japanese and has a degree in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds. She has worked as a journalist for almost twenty years and as a section editor for Vogue International, Elle, and Stylist. She spent most of her life living abroad in Japan, Vietnam, Australia, China, Singapore, and the United States. This is her debut novel.

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