| Darkly Beating Heart Contributor(s): Smith, Lindsay (Author) |
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ISBN: 1626720444 ISBN-13: 9781626720442 Publisher: Roaring Brook Press OUR PRICE: $31.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Asia - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Self-mutilation |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2016932186 |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.7 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A troubled girl confronts her personal demons in this time-travel thriller alternating between present day and 19th century Japan. No one knows how to handle Reiko. She is full of hatred; all she can think about is how to best hurt herself and those people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt at her home in Seattle, Reiko's parents send her to spend the summer with family in Japan, hoping she will learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping backward in time into the nineteenth-century life of Miyu, a young woman even more vengeful than Reiko herself. Reiko loves escaping into Miyu's life . . . until she discovers Kuramagi's dark secret and must face down Miyu's demons as well as her own. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Lindsay: - Lindsay Smith is the author of Cold War era espionage novels Sekret and Skandal, fantasy novel Dreamstrider, and Japanese time travel novel A Darkly Beating Heart. She writes on foreign affairs and lives in Washington, D.C. |