![]() ![]() ![]() But this is largely stage-setting for Becker's focus on language learning in context speech bubbles written as subtitled Japanese become more complex as Nao's comprehension improves. Together, the fast friends experience touchstones of Japanese life-combini, izakaya, obaachans, cherry blossoms, and matsuri. Nao, a Japanese American teenager, arrives in Tokyo for a gap year and quickly befriends her roommates-bouncy Tina, who is Chinese Singaporean, and homesick Hyejung, who is Korean-and interacts with two male Japanese roommates, Shinichi and Masaki. Becker, who illustrated George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, pinpoints this sense of discovery and disorientation in her debut graphic novel. Gr 9 Up-Living in a foreign country is an immersive and often rewarding experience, but grappling with a new language can also be a struggle to keep one's head above water. ![]()
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