Wow, just saw my number for May and it was bleak. I did actually read more than that but didn't blog about all of them. With summer vacation on the near horizon my pace with definitely pick up.
In this book Kaede is being given an option. Since the death of his mother he has been angry. He has taken it out on the driver whose inattention cost his mom her life, he took it out on his best friend, and his grades have suffered greatly. His assignment for the summer is to write about home. But, in order to do that, he needs to discover what that is for him now which means going to Japan and trying to connect with his father.
But when he gets to Japan his brother meets him, telling him that his father is off on a photo shoot. As the weeks go by and his father doesn't show Kaede decides to take matters into his own hands. What he learns helps him to finally put the past behind him and come to terms with his present.
I liked the cultural aspect and the focus on different meanings of home but some things were resolved too easily or not at all.
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