Best-Selling Novel Fifty Words for Rain - A GMA Book Club Pick

A debut novel by Asha Lemmie, "Fifty Words for Rain" has been selected as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and has become a New York Times Bestseller. This heartrendingхх story explores themes of love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous yet always durable bonds that hold a family together, as described by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Kristin Hannah.

The story is set in Kyoto, Japan, in 1948. Eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson is simple: "Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words, nor will she fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. Nori, the child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents, desperate to uphold the family's royal pedigree in a changing Japan, have taken her in, but only to conceal her existence. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity.

However, when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally. The two form a powerful bond, one that their formidable grandparents cannot allow. This bond will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. For now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it – a battle that just might cost her everything.

Spanning decades and continents, "Fifty Words for Rain" is a dazzling epic about the ties that bind, the ties that give you strength, and what it means to be free.

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