While I Was Away
By Waka T. Brown
Narrated by: Chieko Hidaka
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Named one of New York Public Library's & Bank Street's Best Books of the Year!
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her familyโs roots.
When twelve-year-old Wakaโs...
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