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product_id: 15203045
title: "The Language Inside Hardcover – May 14, 2013"
brand: "holly thompson"
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# The Language Inside Hardcover – May 14, 2013

**Brand:** holly thompson
**Price:** € 17.02
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- **What is this?** The Language Inside Hardcover – May 14, 2013 by holly thompson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book is out of publishing (SO SAD! ) so make sure to pick it up ...
*by R***E on June 16, 2017*

This book is out of publishing (SO SAD!) so make sure to pick it up while you still can. It's a wonderful read that dives into what it means to truly belong. It's a great pairing with the graphic novel American Born Chinese. American Born Chinese

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gorgeous Verse-Told Story
*by E***A on January 10, 2014*

I absolutely loved this book. It was so gentle and soft, like reading poetry while learning a deeply intricate story. The descriptions of nature, running, Emma's feelings, her internal wars, were so spot on, so wonderfully unfolded. It was just beautiful to read from start to finish.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Though I had my little issues, I enjoyed this book overall. I look forward to reading more by this author.
*by A***A on June 27, 2013*

Emma, though American, has lived in Japan all her life, and considers it her home. When her mother becomes ill, the family moves to America until her treatment is done and they can move back. Emma misses everything about Japan and feels like a fish out of water with her school mates and everyone's American ways. After she starts volunteering, she meets Samnang and they grow close.There is a lot happening in this book - earthquakes, tsunamis, cultural differences, cancer, death, friendship, first love, migraines, PTSD, war, family relationships and obligations... Sometimes I felt like it was maybe one issue too many, but I think Holly Thompson did a pretty good job of keeping everything moving and meshing it all together into one fluent story.I really liked Emma, she was kind and thoughtful and so nice. There was nary a sign of teenage brattiness to her. She had lovely parents, who cared about each other and talked to each other and their kids. Emma's little brother didn't play a big part, but he seemed nice enough. You could call this your average nice family. I also liked Samnang, though I found him to be a bit on the quiet side for me. I loved the woman in the nursing home Emma started visiting, Zena. She was bedridden and unable to move anything except her eyes. Even with those limitations, you could tell she had a great attitude and a fun sense of humor.The words were written in free verse form with very little punctuation, and only line breaks to help keep everything in order. The times when someone was talking were indicated by italics, not quotation marks. It only took a page or two for me to get into the flow of the words, and after that, I zipped through, able to follow along perfectly.I don't know when to say whatI don't know if something's funny or notI don't get sarcasmlayered over sarcasmand jokes made byunjoking facesI know how to read silence in JapanI can read the air in Japanbut I don't have a cluehow to read the air hereWith such sparse words and free-flowing nature of the words, Holly Thompson knows how to paint a picture. She made you feel how lonely Emma was, even when surrounded by people. And though there wasn't a lot of talk about her mom's cancer, Holly still managed to express how scared Emma was.

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