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It is 1944, and the war between the United States and Japan rages across the Pacific. Back in Nebraska, Kathy Syverson has been having dreams that are so unusual and disturbing that they have left her shell-shocked\u2014literally. She\u2019s been dreaming about her brother Danny, a Marine fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. But Kathy isn\u2019t just dreaming about Danny; she is there with him, witnessing what happens to him, including the horrors of war that he must endure.<\/p>\n

She is accompanied at times by two Okinawan children. Repelled by their status as the enemy, Kathy\u2019s animosity toward them begins to crumble as she watches them struggle to survive in a land shattered by war. But how can she feel sympathy for them if their countrymen are trying to kill her brother?<\/p>\n

As Kathy experiences increasingly violent battles alongside Danny, she finds herself bringing her traumas into the real world. Pete Thompson came home with one arm and haunted eyes, and it isn\u2019t long before Kathy understands why he\u2019s so different from the laughing young man she used to know. War changes everyone who encounters it: the people fighting, the civilians in the battle zones, the soldiers who come home, and the people who are left behind when soldiers don\u2019t come home. But Kathy learns some important lessons about war and loss, tolerance and humanity, and it is these lessons that she will carry with her after the war is finally over.<\/p>\n

Author\u00a0Robert Black<\/strong>\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn August of 1945, the Second World War ended with the dropping of the second atomic bomb on mainland Japan. The Battle of Okinawa two months before that was the last major engagement. At that point in the war, the Japanese strategy was to make the American advance so bloody and so costly that they\u2019d choose to negotiate peace rather than conquer the Japanese Home Islands. What made the battle especially horrible was the large number of civilian casualties. It\u2019s estimated that 142,000 people\u2014one-third of the civilian population\u2014were killed. Many were victims of collateral damage, and others committed suicide, too ashamed of their defeat or frightened by Japanese propaganda that portrayed Americans as savage brutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThose civilians were the ones that drew me to the battle and led me to think that there might be a story there. I was especially interested in the stories of children who were caught in the conflict. Perhaps the best known of these are the accounts of the Himeyuri students and other Okinawan high school girls who were pressed into service as battlefield nurses.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI found the story of a young girl who was given a makeshift white flag by the elderly couple sheltering her and told to go to the Americans. By the time she made it, she was being followed by an entire line of surrendering Japanese soldiers. If there was to be a book for me to write about Okinawa, it would involve characters like these children because I believed that my readers could relate to them.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It is 1944, and the United States is embroiled in World War II. Back in Nebraska, Kathy has been having unusual dreams about her brother Danny, a Marine fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. But Kathy isn\u2019t just dreaming about Danny; she is there with him, witnessing what happens to him. As she works through the trauma of her experiences, Kathy learns some important lessons about war, loss, tolerance, and humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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