This time will be different
Sugiura, Misa
Genre:
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition
and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt
Hannah
at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings
but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet
CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her mom decides to sell the shop -- to the family who swindled CJ's grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ's family
friends
and their entire Northern California community; and for the first time
CJ has found something she wants to fight for.
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