Kim/Kimi

by Hadley Irwin

Book Overview

Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, 16-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014032593X
• ISBN13: 9780140325935
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Kim/Kimi

I recommend its book to people because it is a really good book and is a fast read and is a book you cant put down.

Will She Find Them?

This book is called Kim/Kimi. I personally thought it was a weird title but you have to know what it is about to relate to it. Kim/Kimi is the main character. Her father died when she was little and she is trying to find about what her father was like. She wanted to know if he had siblings so she could have an aunt or uncle. Her mom remarried and she never talked about her ex. Kim flies to California to look for information. Read this book to find out if she finds him! I liked this book because it was well written and the author, Hadley Irwin, chose well words to use in his book also. I didn't really care for the end of the book because it was kind of dull and it should have told more of what happened later on. But over all it was an awesome book, and I would recommend this to anyone between the ages of 10-15.

Kim Andrews or Kimi Yogusi

The book I read is called Kim/Kimi. I rated this book a 4 out of five. I rated it this because it was boring at some parts. I also did because there was not much action until the middle of the book. I liked this book because it was interesting and was something new to read about. It was a good book. It was kind of boring at times but over all I liked it. A good book that has a similar story is The Hiding Place. It's similar because they both talk about concentration camps in them. This book is not as good as the other one but they both are good books. Both of the books take place during World War II. In The Hiding Place, the Nazis lead by Adolph Hitler were discriminating against the Jewish people. In Kim/Kimi the Americans discriminated against the Japanese-American people. Another good book that is similar is Uncle Toms Cabin. It's similar because it's talking about people with a different race and how they were mistreated because of there race or culture. So remember do not judge people because of the way look!!!

Discovering herself

The central issue of "Kim/Kimi" is that Kim Andrews, half American and half Japanese, has no contact with the Japanese part of her family. Her Japanese father died when Kim was a toddler, after he had severed ties with his family in order to marry a white woman. Kim's mother, since remarried, rarely speaks of her first husband, especially the years he spent as a child, interred in a prison camp during World War II.Kim (whose Japanese name is Kimi, hence the book's title) sets off on a journey in search of her father's family. The search doesn't result in a cliched happy reunion. Like real life, Kim's quest and its result are much more complex than that.Throughout the book, Kim's addiction to serial romance novels is highlighted. The authors include "excerpts" from these cheesy novels to point out how different people's lives really are from these silly fantasies. As Kim notes, not everyone in real life has pretty eyes, shiny teeth, and problems that go no deeper than pimples.I like this book for incorporating history in a non-textbook sense. True, the sections that mention the prison camps tend to get a little didactic, with many long speeches from survivors. Overall, though, this book was enjoyable both as an entertaining coming-of-age story and a painless history lesson.