Summary
Laila Ibrahim: Eternal Flower
A touching novel about hope, family and friendship of two women who try to stay strong as America enters World War II and their world crumbles.
It is the morning of December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor has just been bombed. In Berkeley, California, the life of Kay Lynn Brooke's family and all the people she loves turns into total chaos.
In a few weeks, Kimiko, Kay Lynn's best friend, will be forcibly interned with her family in a relocation camp. Brother Kay Lin, full of youthful and patriotic spirit, leaves for the Pacific. Her husband enlists in the military before the draft and goes to basic training, while her sister works on the war effort on the home front—and harbors a secret that exposes her to a different kind of danger.
As Kay Lynn struggles with raising children, maintaining a household, and dealing with the social norms of the time, she finds strength and comfort, and provides it, through the letters she exchanges with Kimiko. During the next uncertain years, longing for the safety and simplicity of the past, Kay Lynn has no choice but to find her place and purpose in a rapidly changing world.
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